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Restrictive media policies can curtail access to the content we do have through the infrastructure we currently have in place. There are clear roles for funders to play in helping to address media policy issues and GFEM works to keep funders abreast of the constantly shifting media policy environment.

The Media Policy Working Group (MPWG) was created to raise awareness and build knowledge about key issues in media policy within the broader philanthropic community. Our aim is to engage and educate grantmakers across fields about the ever-changing media policy and communications policy landscape, as well as foster collaboration among interested donors in support of targeted activities to help advance the media policy field. MPWG activities include a quarterly teleconference and periodic phone briefings on timely issues in addition to quarterly updates in the GFEM newsletter. MPWG also partners with other funder affinity groups to organize media policy-related sessions at national gatherings. Membership is open to grantmakers working in and outside the U.S. with an interest in learning and sharing grantmaking experiences about media policy in the public interest. If you would like to join the MPWG please contact jperlstein (at) gfem (dot) org.

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Intense Review Is Expected for NBC-Comcast Merger Deal

[Source: The New York Times, By Brian Stelter; November 8, 2009] The Center for Digital Democracy, a public interest group, has already called the potential union of Comcast and NBC Universal “the ...
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Yes, Journalists Deserve Subsidies Too: In Defense of Journalism Policy

[Source: The Washington Post, by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols; Friday, October 30, 2009]
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Why Net Neutrality is an Arts Advocacy Issue

[Source: Technology in the Arts, by David Dombrosky; September 22, 2009] I teach a course on “Cultural Policy and Advocacy in the U.S.” each spring for Carnegie Mellon University’s Master of Arts ...

Art and the Public Purpose: A New Framework for Cultural Policy

This new Framework was developed by the Cultural Policy Working Group created on May 12th, 2009, following a White House Briefing on Art, Community, Social Justice, and National Recovery. For more ...
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Local Community Radio Act Advances in Congress

[Source: Prometheus Radio Project; October 15, 2009]Bill Moving Swiftly Toward Full House Vote

Finland: Broadband Access Made Legal Right In Landmark Law

[Source: CNN, by Saeed Ahmed; October 15, 2009]Finland has become the first country in the world to declare broadband Internet access a legal right. Starting in July, telecommunication companies ...

Why Nobody's Neutral on Net Neutrality: Implications for Smalltown, USA

Net neutrality requires Internet providers to equalize the quality of service to all customers, big and small. But what does this debate mean to Smalltown, USA, and rural America?

Op-Ed: Putting Local Radio Back on the Congressional Radar

Nine years ago, when my family lost our radio business, our Virginia community lost the voice it had known for 46 years.[Source: Augusta Free Press, by Rita Sutherland; September 18, 2009]

Protecting Free Speech in the Digital Age

Who should control the Internet? The United States and the European Union are poised to address an issue that affects the free speech interests of Internet users around the world. [Source: ...

Web Survey Finds Speed Is Quickest Overseas

To try to come up with a more complete picture of where countries stand, the study's researchers created an overall index of “broadband leadership” including the performance scores and market ...