A field hearing on media diversity in Atlanta, GA. Watch the video here.
| FCC Hearing on Media Diversity - Atlanta A field hearing on media diversity in Atlanta, GA. Watch the video here. |
 | Pirate Party wins 8.9% of Berlin Legislative Seats on Internet Freedom Platform by Nicholas Kulish, NY Times 15 candidates in their 20's and 30's, running as the Pirate Party, shocked Germany by winning 8.9% of the vote and all 15 legislative seats in Berlin on an Internet Freedom platform. |
 | Black Voices for Internet Freedom Watch the video of the DC Launch of Black Voices for Internet Freedom |
 | The Public Access Crisis by Eric Arnold, Alternet Public-access television has always had a low-budget, amateur reputation. Yet Rod Laughridge's alternative news program "Newsroom on Access SF" was anything but that. Though San Francisco's public-access station had its share of offbeat shows —- like the risqué DeeDeeTV, hosted by self-described "pop culture diva" Dee Dee Russell — "Newsroom" took itself seriously. Its mission, as described on its website, was to "bring community-based, community reported and produced independent news and interviews from a grassroots viewpoint — unhindered, uncensored and unaltered." |
 | WDAV-FM To Independently Syndicate Simeone Opera Program by Brett Zongker, The Huffington Post In another moment of disconnect between community media and the public media machine, WDAV announced they would begin independently syndicating "World of Opera" with host Lisa Simeone. |
 | U-Verse and Community Television: An Explanatory Video This video from keepusconnected.org explains and clearly demonstrates AT&T's failure to deliver basic functionality for public, educational and government (PEG) access channels on its U-Verse system. A petition challenging the discriminatory treatment is pending at the FCC. |
 | Stories From Minnesota: Prison Phones by Tracy Rosenberg, Main Street Project This podcast is a compilation of stories on phones and prisons culled from the Main Street Project (partners in the Media Justice Grassroots Network) at a Phone Justice Policy Day event in Minneapolis. |
 | KPFA Battles Dying Down by Tracy Rosenberg 2010 strife at listener-sponsored KPFA Radio in Berkeley is dying down after the National Labor Relations Board dismissed 3 complaints and former host Aimee Allison lost an arbitration hearing on the voluntary and involuntary layoffs last fall. KPFA has improved it's financial position by over $350,000, reduced it's operating deficit by 85% and has increased listener support donations by 3.5% since October of 2010. |
 | The Panel AT&T Tried to Kill by Tracy Rosenberg July 2nd, 2011 AT&T complained that a panel of independent academics in the PUC's merger impact hearing threatened to "taint" the proceeding with their uninformed opinions. |
 | Rollin Post: R.I.P. http://www.rollinpost.com Political reporter Rollin Post, whose career spanned both mainstream and public broadcasting, passed on October 3rd at the age of 82. |
 | Steve Jobs Dies at 56 by Tracy Rosenberg, Media Alliance Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs passes at 56 of pancreatic cancer, leaving a legacy of digital innovation and a rapidly-changing information society. |
 | Justice for Oscar Grant: Mehserle Release This video records the opening moments of the Fruitvale march that marked the release of Oscar Grant's killer Johannes Mehserle from prison. |
 | Astroturf Up Close and Personal: The AT&T Merger at the CPUC by Tracy Rosenberg, Oakland Local *Note - Two weeks later on June 9th, the public did attend the next meeting and the PUC voted 3-2 to proceed with an extensive investigation of the impacts of the merger of Californians. |
| Bay Citizen Unionizes Editorial Staff by Tracy Rosenberg/PMWG, Media Workers Guild Hyperlocal online news startup, Bay Citizen, will have a 14-person bargaining unit for editorial workers with the Pacific Media Workers Guild after the union won a card check election 7-5-2. |
| Beware of False Promises by Tracy Rosenberg This is not the first time the sun, moon and stars have been promised in return for AT&T receiving favorable results from state and federal government. |
 | Grrll Power by Tracy Rosenberg, Reel Girls and Media Literacy Project Two new videos: 1 from Reel Grrls in Seattle on this year's Academy Awards spectacle and another from Albuquerque's Media Literacy Project on overpriced vocational schools that exploit young job seekers. |
 | Fukushima: Where Do We Go From Here? by Tracy Rosenberg, Pacifica Foundation As the situation in Japan goes from bad to worse, Pacifica Radio provided a comprehensive look at our energy future in the wake of Fukushima. Listen to the 5-station collaborative coverage from the community radio network. |
 | The Bill Comes Due: Telecom Lobbying by Action Coalition on Media Education, Action Coalition on Media Education You often get what you pay for. At&T, Verizon and Comcast certainly did. Take a look at these lobbying expenses totals. |
| Unreported News: Wells Fargo Shareholders Meeting Disrupted on May 3rd by Jonathan Nack, Bay Area Independent Media Center MA member Jonathan Nack recorded this video of the foreclosure protest that disrupted the annual Wells Fargo Shareholders Meeting for over an hour earlier this month. |
 | Brand-new Community Radio Station in Vallejo Draws Racist Graffiti by Sarah Rohrs, Vallejo Times Herald The founder of Vallejo Ozcat, the community-based FM radio station, made a disturbing discovery Saturday morning -- racist epithets scrawled on his son's vehicle and the business' mailbox and doorway. |