updated Mon. March 4, 2024
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Bangkok Post
August 19, 2017
... and put up a fight against what they believed would cripple the free press. The media reform agenda led by ACM Kanit simply hit a roadblock.
Bangkok Post
August 18, 2017
... and put up a fight against what they believed would cripple the free press. The media reform agenda led by ACM Kanit simply hit a roadblock.
Current
August 10, 2017
... Craig Aaron, president of Free Press, a media-reform advocacy group that has promoted the concept. Free Press envisions the consortium asÃÂ ...
Current
August 4, 2017
Free Press, a media-reform nonprofit, advocated using part of the proceeds to create a Civic Information Consortium to provide grants for newsÃÂ ...
Khaosod English
April 28, 2017
'Stop the licensing of media. Stop manipulating people,' reads this image from a social media campaign against the so-called 'media reform billÃÂ ...
Truth-Out
February 10, 2017
... has "been on the wrong side of just about every major issue that has come before the FCC," according to the media reform group Free Press,ÃÂ ...
Current
February 3, 2017
A petition started by media-reform nonprofit Free Press garnered nearly 30,000 signatures within the first 10 days of the Trump administration.
Voice of America
January 30, 2017
Thai media organizations, battling to halt a media reform bill they see ... a press panel and licensing of journalists are never part of a free press.
EconoTimes
December 31, 1999
Victor Pickard is a board member of the media reform organization Free Press. Rodney Benson does not work for, consult, own shares in orÃÂ ...
Mizzima News
March 23, 2017
With respect to developing policy, here are some key lessons to shape ongoing media reform in Myanmar. It is important that a comprehensive .... Further, judicial reforms are necessary in order to foster a free press.Only a judiciary that acts ...
Radio Ink
March 23, 2017
The best-selling author (The Master Switch) will be the guest speaker at the NAB Show Technology Luncheon on Wednesday, April 26 in Las Vegas.
Current
March 21, 2017
Craig Aaron, president of media reform advocate Free Press Action Fund, led the chant, "Elmo, we won't go!" Iman Elkoustaf (Photos: Dru Sefton/Current).
Morning Star Online
March 17, 2017
"It's time we challenged the domination of our TV screens, airwaves and printed page by a tiny, moneyed elite. "We need fundamental media reform. In the meantime, the Morning Star remains the only daily owned by its readers and answering only to them."ÃÂ ...
Bangkok Post
March 5, 2017
The new media reform bill disturbs me. Drawing much controversy when it was first publicly ... Whatever blunders occurred in the past, there is no way toward a democracy without a free press. Even without government oversight, truth-finders exposing ...
Vocativ
March 3, 2017
In 2014, the group considered Israel the only fully free press in the Middle East. The United States is ... "The idea was that once Netanyahu had his own paper, he could use it to destroy the credibility of others, and it would be easier to regulate ...
Common Dreams
February 14, 2017
This month, Pai put his initial stamp on the agency with a series of orders that elicited harsh criticism from media reform and consumer advocacy groups, such as Free Press, which said they will "undercut affordable broadband, greenlight more mediaÃÂ ...
Global Voices Online
February 10, 2017
Government presence on a press panel and licensing of journalists are never part of a free press. ... The so-called media reform bill may effect a total control of the Thai press - not only of the media outlets but also of journalists in the country ...
Truth-Out
February 10, 2017
... Media and Telecom. An FCC controlled by Trump and Pai, the latter of whom has "been on the wrong side of just about every major issue that has come before the FCC," according to the media reform group Free Press, poses a serious threat to democracy.
Current
February 3, 2017
A petition started by media-reform nonprofit Free Press garnered nearly 30,000 signatures within the first 10 days of the Trump administration.
China Post
February 2, 2017
The National Reform Steering Assembly's committee on media reform claims its draft law will protect media rights and freedoms as well as boosting professional and ethical standards in journalistic practice.
Asian Correspondent
February 1, 2017
... their denunciation of the bill that they say is not based on principles of free press. The junta-appointed NRSA media reform panel insisted on pushing through the controversial media regulation bill on Monday despite the calls from media groups to ...
Madison.com
January 31, 2017
While the inauguration of President Donald Trump led more than 75,000 to take part in the Women's March in Madison (above) and led millions to take to the streets across the world to voice their displeasure with him and his policies, the Democracy ...
Bangkok Post
January 31, 2017
A controversial bill to regulate the media industry proposed by the National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) media reform panel could breach the new constitution which supports media self-regulation and independence from state control, a Constitution ...
The Nation.
January 30, 2017
The media-reform organization Free Press (of which I'm a board member) is advocating that public-television stations devote proceeds from spectrum auctions toward supporting local journalism.
The Nation.
January 30, 2017
Previously he worked on media policy in Washington, DC as a Senior Research Fellow at the media reform organization Free Press and the public policy think tank the New America Foundation. He also taught media policy at the University of Virginia andÃÂ ...
Voice of America
January 30, 2017
A new national media council will include both top bureaucrats of four ministries "to order and guide media reform," The Bangkok Post said in an editorial.
Front Page Africa
January 26, 2017
In one of his vivid publications on free press in the contemporary era, the author of this article, Josephus Moses Gray revealed that the presence of free press brings public corruption cases to the voting population while voters most often in an ...
The Nation.
January 26, 2017
It is more necessary than ever to embrace movements to get big money out of politics and to restore ethics to government, to defend voting rights and to make it easier to cast ballots, to reform our media and to sustain a truly free press. Groups such ...
Bangkok Post
January 24, 2017
ACM Kanit Suwannate, who heads the media reform steering committee of the junta's group, has indicated he is willing to discuss the draft law with media people.
Left Foot Forward
January 10, 2017
If we really want a free press which protects our democracy from propaganda we must break up media monopolies and radically challenge the nature of media ownership in the UK.
Press Gazette
December 19, 2016
This compares with the launch of 29 newspapers, making a net loss of 17. According to Press Gazette's tally this makes a net loss of 198 local newspapers since 2005.
Progressive.org
December 18, 2016
The media reform movement that emerged from that effort gave rise to watchdog groups including Free Press, which continues that work today.
Progressive.org
December 16, 2016
The media reform movement that emerged from that effort gave rise to watchdog groups including Free Press, which continues that work today.
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
December 13, 2016
The ad was signed by more than 75 public interest groups, including public health, media reform, civil rights, food safety and peace activists.
BillMoyers.com
December 7, 2016
Meanwhile, here in the nation's capital, we will continue working on behalf of media reform. Our goal is media that ... He serves on the board of Free Press and the Free Press Action Fund and is a special adviser to Common Cause. Follow him on Twitter:ÃÂ ...
BloombergQuint
November 29, 2016
Music Broadcast Ltd. (MBL), a subsidiary of Jagran Prakashan Ltd. (JPL), has filed its draft red herring prospectus (RHP) with the Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for an initial public offering (IPO).
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
November 4, 2016
Previously, he worked on media policy in Washington as a senior research fellow at the Media Reform Organization Free Press. He's the author of numerous books and articles and scholarly journals, including America's Battle for Media Democracy. It is myÃÂ ...
The Conversation UK
November 3, 2016
Throughout all of this, the question of how to regulate a free press continues. The Press Complaints Commission is no more, IPSO (the industry's own body) is ignored by several major ... of people's lives". This is the doctrine that motivated and ...
Sky News Australia
October 17, 2016
'My view is that cartoonists and satirists play a really important role in the free press,' he told The Australian.
Open Democracy
August 12, 2016
In addition, although media reform has indeed brought about more job opportunities for women journalists and increased their economic independence, it has also introduced new sources of gender inequality.
Hong Kong Free Press
July 9, 2016
In the 1990s, and through to the end of the last decade, the spirit of media reform from the 1980s found fertile ground in a revolution of commercial innovation and social and economic transformation, even fostering a movement of investigative ...
Open Democracy
June 30, 2016
So, if you were ever in any doubt that media reform is needed in the UK to support something approximating democracy, the reporting of the Leave campaign surely gives you your answer.
Awoko
May 21, 2016
Statements were made the representatives of the Independent Media Commission, Women in the Media Sierra Leone, reporters Union, the Department of Mass Communications at FBC, the Media Reform and Coordinating Group and the Law ReformÃÂ ...
Democracy Now!
May 19, 2016
AMY GOODMAN: Well, I want to thank you, Robert McChesney, professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in the Department of Communication, co-founded Free Press, a national media reform group. And Bob McChesney and John NicholsÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
May 17, 2016
Serving as one of the three panelists at a two-day Media Law and Regulatory Reform Stakeholders' Conference organized by the Press Union of Liberia and partners in Monrovia, Mr. Kollie said the free press, which government continuously boasts about ...
BillMoyers.com
May 5, 2016
The media reform group Free Press has repeatedly shown that caps serve no legitimate engineering or economic function; their sole purpose is to pad profit margins (which already exceed 60 percent for cable companies' broadband businesses).
Cascadia Weekly
May 3, 2016
"Thanks to this merger both Charter and Comcast now have unprecedented control over our cable and Internet connections," Craig Aaron, of the media reform organization Free Press, said after the news broke that these two corporations will likely merge.
Caledonian Record
April 29, 2016
"Thanks to this merger both Charter and Comcast now have unprecedented control over our cable and Internet connections," Craig Aaron, of the media reform organization Free Press, said after the news broke that these two corporations will likely merge.
Monterey County Herald
April 29, 2016
"Thanks to this merger both Charter and Comcast now have unprecedented control over our cable and Internet connections," Craig Aaron, of the media reform organization Free Press, said after the news broke that these two corporations will likely merge.
Huffington Post UK
April 28, 2016
Researchers from Goldsmiths, University of London, in conjunction with the Media Reform Coalition, analysed every article, relating to the mayoral campaign, over a two-month period (8 February to 15 April).
