AME promotes and supports media education in homes and schools as well as in community groups serving youth. AME's mission is to move children and youth, as well as those adults who are concerned with their well being, from a position of passive media consumption to one of interacting with the media as active, critical, and creative consumers and producers.

Free Press is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. Free Press does not support or oppose any candidate for public office. Through education, organizing and advocacy, we promote diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media and universal access to communications.