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The 30 most recent media-related headlines gathered by Free Press for activists and others. Typically over 20 articles every weekday.
Updated: 3 hours 42 min ago
Murdoch spelled out a theme he's been emphasizing since last year, but in renewed terms -- that front-page feature stories are too long and might be better suited for a weekend reader who has more time to read them.
Categories: media reform
In the midst of turmoil, Kenya's media activists are using cutting-edge mobile technologies to give voice to the voiceless to challenge the politics that insists upon keeping many Kenyans unheard.
Categories: media reform
In response to complaints filed by Free Press and other public interest groups, the FCC is looking into network management practices by Comcast and Verizon Communications and is seeking public comment.
Categories: media reform
During last week's cliffhanger of a primary in New Hampshire, it was the Associated Press that lent some sanity in the process, making an early call as the night got late.
Categories: media reform
Categories: media reform
The game of telephone played by the political press over the dispute between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama over Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy reveals a lot about the press' tendency to love a good dogfight even more than it loves a good horserace.
Categories: media reform
Nevada's Supreme Court upheld NBC's exclusion of presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) from the MSNBC Democrats' debate. But NBC managers changed the program's qualification rules five days before the event.
Categories: media reform
In 2007, as advertising and circulation revenue plunged, newspaper publishers, for better or worse, trimmed fixed costs -- labor and newsprint -- to prop up margins.
Categories: media reform
Not so long ago, you could watch news programs with a wide range of insight and perspective by black experts. The station to watch was Black Entertainment Television -- before it was sold to Viacom and most of its news programming was canceled.
Categories: media reform
Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has asked Somali authorities to release two radio journalists, and condemned the interim government for what it called a flagrant violation of press freedom.
Categories: media reform
When college kids make mash-ups of Hollywood movies, are they violating the law? Not necessarily, according to a new study, which shows that many uses of copyrighted material in todayâ??s online videos are eligible for fair use consideration.
Categories: media reform
Comcast could be working with towns in Michigan as they make the transition to digital programming. But the cable giant appears to have no intent of working with the communities they dominate.
Categories: media reform
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) flew to Las Vegas hoping to join the leading Democratic presidential candidates at a debate, but his wishes were dashed by the Nevada Supreme Court less than an hour before showtime.
Categories: media reform
Media companies are in a valuation nightmare. Their problem is being valued almost exclusively on old models and metrics, while not yet reaping the balance-sheet benefits of an unfolding digital nirvana.
Categories: media reform
Comcast is evaluating its options after a federal judgeimposed a temporary restraining order on the cable companyâ??s plans to move community access channels higher up the dial.
Categories: media reform
The assumption that the writers' strike is driving an increase in online-video traffic is logical but incorrect. Although online video is growing, a look at the data suggests little acceleration between November, when the strike began, and December.
Categories: media reform
Comcast has made a tactical error in asserting that Michigan's new video franchising law supersedes the requirements of the federal Cable Act. But some choppy waters lie ahead on the underlying purpose of the lawsuit against them.
Categories: media reform
Despite any claims it might make to the contrary, all is not well in FCC-land. The real FCC is not a well-oiled, democracy-fostering, competition-producing machine. It is broken. It ignores the public and kneels at the knee of Big Media and Big Telecom.
Categories: media reform
Comcast this week received a letter from the FCC asking that the cable provider respond in writing by January 25 regarding accusations that it is blocking access to certain file-sharing applications.
Categories: media reform
As foreshadowed at the Consumer Electronics Show, federal regulators this week took the first formal step into investigating complaints about how Internet service providers, such as Comcast, manage peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic on their networks.
Categories: media reform
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