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Oakland Municipal WiFi Study Concludes with a Whimper
Oakland, a city with a digital divide as intense as anywhere in the United States, concluded a much-heralded city study on a possible municipal broadband network in July.

One World Radio: Live from the Allied Media Conference
by Radio Rootz , KBCS, RTM and PRP
Our friends at KBCS- Seattle, Reclaim The Media and the Prometheus Radio Project present an hour-long program of interviews and feature stories from the Detroit radical media conference that preceded the Social Forum.

From Mississippi to Arizona
by Linda Burnham, Truthout.org
The room was small,http://www.truth-out.org/burnham-from-mississippi-arizona-for-freedom-and-human-rights60434 but it was filled with enormous possibility. And everyone in there knew it.

Fresno Residents Fed Up With Hate on the Radio
by Samantha Claire Bell
June 17th, 2010
Fresno community group leaders have joined forces to ask the area's most popular talk radio station, KMJ, to make changes to their programming. According to spokesperson, Les Kimber, the group Citizens for Civility and Accountability in Media (CCAM) was formed in October 2009 out of concern about what is broadcast daily on their local radio station.

Free The Radio Spectrum
by James Losey and Sascha Meinrath, Open Technology Initiative/New America Fdn
For the wonks out there: an excellent paper from the Open Technology Initiative on what 21st century spectrum reform looks like.

The Battle to Control Media Systems: The Culture of Professionalism Versus Cultures of Direct Participation
by James Owens, Media-Ocracy
Who produces media systems? Answering that question is the only way to understand the culture and politics that such systems will reproduce.

Prepaid Cell Phones: The New Crime
by Chris Strohm, National Journa;
Citing the recent attempt to detonate a car bomb in New York City's Times Square, Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, announced legislation Wednesday aimed at identifying the buyers and users of prepaid cell phones.

NPR Says NPR is Sexist
by Tracy Rosenberg, National Public Radio Ombudsman
National Public Radio's ombudsman has released a report headlined "Where Are The Women?". Elsewhere, it seems.

Road Trip: CA Net Neutrality Delegation to Orange County
MA teamed with the LA Media Reform group to travel down to Orange County and the Inland Empire and speak to Dems who aren't supporting net neutrality.

Control of Public Media as a Social Justice Issue
by Scott Sanders and James Owens, Editor and Publisher/Truthout
January 29th, 2010
Media justice organizers at the Center for Media Justice (CMJ) and MAG-Net have recently produced a brilliant campaign plan ("The Campaign for universal broadband") to win three policies crucial for just and democratic communication: network neutrality, universal broadband and universal service fund reform.

Huffington Post: Single Payer Broadband?
by Tracy Rosenberg, Huffington Post
March 22nd, 2010
Single Payer Broadband ; The Broadband Plan and the Movement for a People's Media.

SSRC Study on Barriers to Broadband Adoption in Low-Income Communities
by Tracy Rosenberg, Social Science Research Council
This study draws on some 170 interviews of non-adopters, community access providers, and other intermediaries conducted across the US in late 2009 and early 2010 and identifies a range of factors that make broadband services hard to acquire and even harder to maintain in such communities.

Media News Television
by Tracy Rosenberg
MA started a new twice-monthly show on public access television on media democracy and media justice. Watch the videos! Hour-long version is in the works.

MA in the Huffington Post: Why Public Access is Important and You Should Fight to Pass the CAP Act.
by Tracy Rosenberg, Huffington Post
In May of 2009, I became a public access television producer. Couldn’t have picked a worse time.

Broadband in Yo' Face
A broadband song for the holidays. Brought to you by Media Alliance and the Bay Area Media Justice Hub. Written and performed by Eloise Lee and Kat Evasco.

How To Avoid Ethical Snags in Nonprofit Journalism
by Stephen Ward, Public Media Shift
The following article by UW-Madison School of Journalism professor Stephen Ward surveys some concerns about the new "nonprofit journalism." We'd add some concerns of our own to the one he presents.

Network Neutrality and Racial Justice
This is a resource sheet on network neutrality, universal broadband and racial justice prepared by the Center for Media Justice.

The Dangers of Blogging
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/11/20091111171831357111.html
Intrigued by an alert sent to us by Xalid Aghliyev at the Media Rights Institute in Azerbajian, we looked a little deeper and found this cautionary tale from Central Asia.

Basta Dobbs Campaign
http://www.bastadobbs.com
October 12th, 2009
Update: According to current reports: Dobbs is on his way out of CNN, possibly over to Fox News Channel. Lou Dobbs' brand of journalism is dangerous to Latinos in America -- and it's time to fight back.

NY Post Fires Editor Critical of Racist Obama Cartoon
by Sam Stein, Huffington Post
September 30th, 2009
Sandra Guzman was quietly dismissed from her position as associate editor last week for reasons that are being hotly debated by personnel inside the company.

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