• No Ordinary Week for Net Neutrality

    Megan Tady
    January 11, 2010

    It feels like any other work day. You drove the same route to work. You ate the same breakfast. Around 11 a.m., you looked longingly out your window imagining yourself swinging in a hammock on a beach. Pretty routine.

  • Musicians Plug Into Net Neutrality

    Casey Rae-Hunter
    January 11, 2010

    In October, the FCC announced its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on net neutrality.

  • Journalism: A Classic ‘Public Good’

    Candace Clement
    January 8, 2010

    This post also appears at www.NewPublicMedia.org.

    Last year practically burst at the seams with reports, conferences and other high-profile gatherings on the future of journalism. So what comes next? As one blog post summarized in December, “If 2009 was a year of study and debate about the future of journalism, 2010 must be a year of action.”

    Those looking for a roadmap this year should turn to the latest analysis from Bob McChesney and John Nichols, whose new book, The Death and Life of American Journalism, kicks off the new decade with some sage advice: You want to save journalism? Take a history lesson, stop fear-mongering about government involvement in journalism, and get organized.

  • The Killer App of 1900

    Glenn Fleishman
    January 7, 2010

    It’s instructional to look back 100 years, not long after the first electrical generation plants were built to bring power to towns and cities, to assess the situation we find ourselves in with broadband availability today.

  • Watching Over California

    Josh Stearns
    January 7, 2010

    After a few delays, a few new staff and a few solid investigative projects under its belt, the California Watch Web site launched this week.

    California Watch is a project of the longstanding nonprofit journalism organization, the Center for Investigative Reporting. With new journalism projects launching every week, what’s interesting about California Watch? I mention a few specifics below, but in general, California Watch embodies a number of the key ideas that we at SaveTheNews.org think will shape the future of news in America.

  • Net Neutrality And Why It Is Important To Women

    Mary Alice Crim
    January 7, 2010

    Right now in Washington, D.C., policymakers are debating new rules that will shape the future of the Internet, and they need to hear from women.

    We have just a week left to tell the Federal Communications Commission (or FCC, the government agency for media) that the Internet is important to women and that we support Net Neutrality.

  • Dan Rather on the Media’s ‘New Order’

    Megan Tady
    January 6, 2010

    In the latest video in The Nation’s series on the future of journalism, Dan Rather gives what he calls a “wide shot” on the conditions facing print journalism.

    Rather, managing editor and anchor of Dan Rather Reports on HDNet and the former anchor of the CBS Evening News, describes print media as an “old order” that has disappeared but not yet been replaced by a “new order.” He discusses the pros and cons of transitioning to online media.

    Watch the video:

  • The Nexus One Is Here. Now What?

    Chris Riley
    January 5, 2010

    I've complained a good bit, both here and in filings to the FCC, about the state of the wireless industry. I yearn for better and more affordable wireless services, with devices sold independent of carriers, giving consumers real, meaningful choices.

  • My Web Series Made Possible by Net Neutrality

    Ruth Livier
    January 5, 2010

    I’ve been a working actress for years. But being an artist at heart, I was increasingly dissatisfied by the number and type of roles that were available to me. So in my quest to expand my job opportunities and income potential, I turned to writing. Insert laugh here. Yeah, that in itself didn’t completely do the trick because I was still bumping up against the traditional Hollywood gatekeepers.

  • The Luxury of Investigative Reporting

    Megan Tady
    December 29, 2009

    Investigative journalist Jane Mayer is one of the lucky ones – she still has a job. As news outlets cut back, they’ve also cut down on investigative reporting. As part of The Nation’s video series on the future of journalism, Mayer, a reporter with The New Yorker, spoke last week about how investigative journalism has become a “luxury.”

    Watch:

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