Low-power noncommercial radio stations like KXZI, which emerged about 10 years ago in a brief window of eased federal regulation intended to foster competition with the big corporate radio chains, might be soon about to roar. more»

Decisions being made now and in the next few years are going to shape the future of all media for a generation. They will decide if the Internet will remain open; if everyone will share in the benefits of broadband; if we're going to have a world-class public media system; and if we'll have any public service journalism. What we need is real change. And if we want real change, all of us are going to have to become lobbyists. more»

In response to ColorofChange.org's call for advertisers to stop airing commercials on the Glenn Beck Show after Beck's racist remarks, 57 companies have pulled their ads. And an appeals court threw out the FCC's ruling that cable companies can't control more than 30 percent of a market. But that doesn't mean that the agency gets to ignore the issue of capping cable ownership.

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WASHINGTON -- Free Press filed comments Monday with the Federal Communications Commission about how the term "broadband" should be defined in future policymaking at the agency.

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WASHINGTON -- Today, a federal court threw out the Federal Communications Commission's rule to cap cable ownership at 30%. The rule served as an important consumers protection from media consolidation and growing cable cartels, and encouraged diversity in ownership in the cable industry.

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The Federal Communications Commission has turned up the heat on the wireless industry expanding its probe of mobile phone practices following widespread complaints about a lack of competition, openness and innovation.

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Summer 2009 has been the season of Astroturf. And the best way to combat it is to expose these phony grassroots organizations at every turn. August is typically quiet in Washington, D.C., but statistics have been loud and clear in illustrating the impact of government media policy on communities across America.

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WASHINGTON -- Today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) announced that they received almost 2,200 applications requesting nearly $28 billion in funding for proposed broadband projects. This is the first of three bidding rounds for the $7.2 billion in funds the NTIA will distribute.

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DENVER--Thursday marks six months since the 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News published its final edition. Since then, Denver has become a testing ground for rethinking how journalism is done.

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As newsrooms continue scaling back, idling hundreds of veteran reporters, photographers and artists, perhaps some of them will look outside the big cities and see if they can use their talents working for themselves out in the sticks. And maybe, just maybe, we're at the start of a golden age of small town, community newspapering. more»