• Shareholders Want to Vote on Comcast, AT&T’s Net Neutrality Stance

    Megan Tady
    December 13, 2010

    The nation’s largest telecom companies may be trying to gut Net Neutrality, but their investors – many of whom base their success (and ability to invest) on the open Internet – are not applauding the company line.

  • The Can-You-Hear-Us-Now-a-Thon: Petition Delivery Marathon at the FCC

    Misty Perez Truedson
    December 13, 2010

    We’re running a marathon for the next two days, but this is not your normal 26.2 mile race. This marathon involves hauling at least 50,000 petitions to the Federal Communications Commission in support of real Net Neutrality every hour, on the hour until we’ve delivered all 2 million signatures.

  • Thousands Call NAB for Local Community Radio

    Josh Stearns
    December 13, 2010

    You know you are getting to them when they change their voicemail.

    NAB phone message by jcstearns

  • More than 80 Groups Demand Real Net Neutrality

    Megan Tady
    December 10, 2010

    More than 80 organizations and businesses are today urging Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski to enact real Net Neutrality rules, not the empty compromise the chairman has proposed.

  • Clyburn Must Rescue Net Neutrality

    Megan Tady
    December 8, 2010

    The open Internet is in clear and present danger, and Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn may be our heroine. Will she rescue it?

  • The Fairness Doctrine Fear Machine

    Josh Stearns
    December 7, 2010

    Do you hear that rumbling? That’s the engines of the “Fairness Doctrine Fear Machine” spinning into high gear, again. The most recent round of misguided fear mongering comes from Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck at Fox News. After a speech from Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps, the pair are making a lot of noise about a new “government takeover of the media.” Unfortunately, it seems like Rep. Joe Barton is drinking their kool-aid.

  • LTE Brings Mobile Video, Complete with Sky High Bills

    Chris Riley
    December 7, 2010

    This week, Verizon Wireless turned on its long-awaited LTE network – a 4G wireless network that, for now, connects devices via wireless modems -- in 38 markets across the country.

  • Reddit Users Stand for Net Neutrality

    Eddie Geller
    December 6, 2010

    A few weeks ago, I posted an article to Reddit.com (one of the Internet’s most beloved social news sites) about the woeful prospects for Net Neutrality. I wrote, “If we want Net Neutrality (or anything else), then we need to demand it.”

  • Anatomy of a Sunday Newspaper

    Josh Stearns
    December 6, 2010

    There are many different yard sticks to measure the health and quality of a local news ecosystem. We track ad revenue and audience numbers. We count the number of news outlets and look at the number of newsroom job losses. We watch out for journalism innovators and interesting partnerships. But occasionally in all of these examinations we lose sight of the forest for the trees. Sometimes, it is best to examine the quality of the journalism itself.

    Earlier this year Clay Shirky did a comprehensive “news biopsy” of his hometown newspaper, the Columbia Daily Tribune. After literally dissecting the paper and weighing its different pieces he found that:

  • Putting the ‘Public’ Back in ‘Public Interest’

    Libby Reinish
    December 3, 2010

    In today’s media landscape, where mega corporations run amuck, it’s easy to forget that the airwaves belong to the public. But they do, and in return for the free use of this extraordinarily valuable public resource, station owners agree to serve the public by providing a certain amount of public interest programming.

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