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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.

IGP Releases New Paper on "Net Neutrality as Global Principle for Internet Governance"

[Source: Internet Governance Project Blog by Brenda Kuerbis] As a contribution to the 2007 UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Internet Governance Project (IGP) has released a new paper showing ...

Media Consolidation An Issue on Main street

A poll released by Media and Democracy Coalition reveals that the public sees media consolidation as a “problem.”

Bill Moyers on the FCC and Media Ownership

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Bill Moyers Journal reports on the real-world consequences of media policy through the lens of how it affects minority media ownership in America. Watch this episode by clicking here.

Challenging the Decline in Foundation and Non-Profit Public Advocacy

During the last century, foundations and non-profits led the way in public policy development through advocacy on civil rights, health care, and other fundamental community issues. But over the ...

Council on Foundations Clarifies Lobbying Rules for Foundations and Non-Profits

This document, prepared by the Council on Foundations, outlines some of the regulations that govern lobbying and advocacy by foundations.

Costs of Failure to Achieve President's Goal of Universal Broadband by 2007 are "Staggering," Says New Report

Include Hundreds of Billions of Dollars of Economic Growth and Over a Million JobsWASHINGTON, October 10, 2007: The failure to achieve President Bush's 2004 goal of universal broadband access to ...

Freedom of Expression Across Africa with a Focus on Kenya

Wilson Ugangu, currently serving a fellowship at Consumers Union’s Washington office, is with the African Woman and Child Feature Service (AWC), a non governmental media organization that works on ...

Profiles of Exemplary Work in Arts, Culture and Democracy – Including Media

The Center for Civic Participation’s Arts & Democracy Project has postedtwelve profiles of exemplary work in arts, culture and democracy on theirwebsite, including profiles of:

Rethinking the Discourse on Race: A Symposium on How the Lack of Racial Diversity in the Media Affects Social Justice and Policy

By Neil F. Carlson and edited by Leonard M. Baynes 

Alliance for Community Media’s "Community Media & Social Justice"

Alliance for Community Media (ACM) is the national umbrella organization for nearly 3000 Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) Access Centers in the U.S. ACM's quarterly journal, Community ...