The Los Angeles Media Reform Group is a volunteer-run project of California Common Cause that focuses on holding news accountable to the public interest and encouraging citizens to create their own media, and to be critical consumers of the mass media. Click here for contact information.

We exist because want a media that truly serves the public interest—not the profits of a corporate parent. We exist because we want to foster independent media and breakup the stranglehold that media giants use to further business and/or political agendas while keeping citizens in the dark. We exist because we feel this fight will never be won one media reformer at a time. We exist because we want to meet people on the issues they care about and show them how media reform overlaps everything they care about.

We are a conduit to local groups and community organizations which may not even be aware of how the media affect their issues. We want to be a catalyst for action. We want to forge relationships with local communities and leverage their existing support and activism network by enlisting their members to participate and advocate for media that is responsive to their issues and the greater public interest.

The LA Media Reform Group has submitted written testimony to a FCC Los Angeles hearings, circulated petitions supporting full funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and lobbied Congressional members on media reform.

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.