• What’s Your Vision for Journalism’s Future? Take the Poll

    Josh Stearns
    August 10, 2009

    We’ve already shared with you our vision for journalism’s future. This weekend
    Dan Rather shared his. But what’s yours?

    Today, we launched a poll designed to give you a chance to share your vision for the future of the news, and to let us know how changes in journalism are affecting your community. We want your help in shaping this campaign, and we need you to reshape public policy in Washington, D.C.

  • American Library Association Wants Network Neutrality

    Carrie Lowe
    August 10, 2009

    At last month’s American Library Association annual conference in Chicago, I served on a Sunday morning panel presentation on the topic of Network Neutrality. On that day, there was no Network Neutrality legislation in Congress (like there is today, thanks to Reps. Markey and Eshoo).

  • iPhone Users Abhor the Gatekeeper

    Timothy Karr
    August 7, 2009

    The business of gatekeeping has blown up in Apple and AT&T’s faces, as more and more tech bloggers, developers and iPhone users vent their rage against the blocking of access to new applications on mobile networks.

  • The Internet: A Recession Lifeline

    Megan Tady
    August 6, 2009

    What are people turning to during these hard economic times, besides a pint of ice cream? The Internet.

  • Mr. President, Help Save the News

    Megan Tady
    August 6, 2009

    In late July, former CBS news anchor Dan Rather sent murmurs through the journalism world when he called on President Obama to form a White House commission on public media and journalism.

    His plea couldn’t be more timely. As news outlets crash and burn and “investigative journalism” becomes a historical relic for the next generation to read about on Wikipedia, Rather said media reform must become a national priority because “a democracy and free people cannot thrive without a fiercely independent press.”

  • Astroturf Groups Try to Enlist Conservatives to Oppose Net Neutrality

    Phillip Dampier
    August 5, 2009

    Earlier this year, some Stop the Cap! readers in North Carolina who attended the hearings on a pro-telecom (actually it was written by them) piece of legislation designed to stall statewide municipal broadband competition encountered strange protests from conservative groups arriving on buses.

  • The Big Phone Companies’ Hypocrisy

    Kate Aishton
    August 5, 2009

    Exclusive deals by the largest phone companies are generating controversy in the communications world, and they should have you worried, too.

  • Giant vs. Giant

    Josh Levy
    August 5, 2009

    In the last week, we’ve seen a torrent of Apple and Google-related news, and things are about to get even stormier.

  • Local News Outlets Employing Fewer Minorities

    Denise Linn
    August 5, 2009

    There’s no denying the moments that make us cringe when we watch TV news. Between the vapid punditry about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to the unhealthy obsession with Jon and Kate’s relationship, it can be difficult to feel good about what is on the screen.

    It turns out that what’s happening behind the cameras is equally cringe-inducing. According to a recent RTNDA/Hofstra study, the diversity of the news work force at our local television and radio stations has slipped.

  • Seven Reasons: Why We Need Net Neutrality Now

    Timothy Karr
    August 3, 2009

    On Friday, Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) marched across Independence Avenue and up the steps of the Capitol Building to introduce a bill that could stand as the First Amendment of the Internet age.

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