American broadcasters, magazines, newspapers and other publishers take in more than four billion dollars a year in drug advertising. The drug money is a rare bright spot in an otherwise dismal downward revenue spiral for media of all types. Last year was a horrible year for advertising spending in this country, which fell 12.3 percent. [...]

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski took questions about the recently-released National Broadband Plan (NBP) on YouTube Monday.

It took me years of searching, but I think I finally found the aggressive, audacious, uncompromising media our democracy needs.

As a high school kid, I fell in love with the Internet. It was a place where I could go home after school and chat with five friends on IM, share hip hop songs from the local Philly scene, and even learn about love and relationships.

As I grew up, the Internet helped me develop my political voice.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn made a direct appeal to the civil rights community to support Net Neutrality rules during an appearance at a forum hosted by the Joint Center for Economic and Political Studies in Washington earlier this month.

Judging from the back-slapping and high fives over at the FCC, you’d think that America’s Internet was sailing smoothly into the future. Think again.

The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism just released their annual State of the Media, a massive report that outlines major content, audience and business trends across news media.
As more and more content has moved online, and the sources for news and information expand and multiply, many have wondered if it matters who owns our [...]

A year ago, we were still building SaveTheNews.org, writing our first major report and holding early meetings with journalism leaders about the future of news and public policy.

It's like clockwork. At least once a month, a major wireless operator trots out an executive to say the current model for mobile data usage is unsustainable. The sob story goes something like this:

This week we asked our members to contact members of the Senate Commerce Committee before Thursday’s hearing on Comcast’s proposed takeover of NBC Universal. In turn, hundreds of people called their senators and made the case for why the Comcast deal would be bad for local consumers and citizens.
Judging by Thursday’s hearing, the Senate got [...]