CURRENT EVENTS MEDIA CONSOLIDATION

Who Owns What?
Listings, coverage and forum about media ownership and consolidation, from The Columbia Journalism Review
www.cjr.org

Global Concentration: The Media Ownership Chart
News and data on media ownership, plus related articles about media monopolies and concentration of power.
www.mediachannel.org

Federal Communications Commission
The FCC official homepage, with news background and other information about regulatory agency's activities and positions.
www.fcc.gov

The Progress & Freedom Foundation
A think tank devoted to the study of the digital revolution. Generally supports deregulation and free market in telecommunications.
www.pff.org

CJR - The Real Dangers of Conglomerate Control
Excerpts from a 1996 forum hosted by Columbia Journalism Review, with panelists expressing differing views on implications of media concentration of ownership.
archives.cjr.org

Corporate Media Portal
Information on corporate media, from a critical perspective. Articles and links about LPFM radio service, anti-corporate sites and links to free radio resources.
www.partytown.com

A New FCC for the 21st Century
Section of official Federal Communications website outlining FCC's changing role and reduced regulation because of a belief that there will be more competition in communications media.
www.fcc.gov

New Democracy Forum -- The Future of Media?
Online debate about effects on democracy of corporate dominance and concentration of media ownership. Includes opinions from differing perspetives from Robert McChesney, Lawrence Grossman, Ralph Nader and other contributors. From Boston Review.
www.bostonreview.net