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Captive Audience

Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 6:00pm

Join the New America Foundation's Media Policy Initiative to mark the release of Susan Crawford's Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age. In the book, Crawford uses the 2011 merger between Comcast and NBCU as a framework to explore how deregulatory changes in policy have created a communications crisis in America. From smartphones and television programming to the cost of high-speed Internet access, Captive Audience illustrates how a handful of companies control our information destiny.

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Media Ownership and the Public Interest

Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 2:00pm

The media talk a lot about America’s changing demographics — just look at the most recent election. But, the industry itself is one of the least diverse in the U.S.
 
Want some numbers to start the conversation? Women own less than 7 percent of broadcast licenses and minorities hold less than 3 percent.
 

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Dark Money, Media and the 2012 Campaign

Friday, November 16, 2012 - 9:30am

The first presidential campaign since the 2010 Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision resulted in the most expensive election season ever. Anonymous and unaccountable donors poured in unprecedented amounts of money. While new media, newspapers and radio collected some of this money, the lion’s share ended up in the bank accounts of television broadcast companies. For months the public was bombarded with a tsunami of ads from political campaigns, Super PACs and other shadowy groups—ads that in many cases were only loosely connected to the truth. 

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Media Transparency

Friday, April 20, 2012 - 12:15pm

 Co-Sponsored by New America's Wireless Future Project & Media Policy Initiative

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The Facts of (Political) Life

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 5:00pm

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These may be the best of times and the worst of times for the cause of fact-based political discourse. By almost any measure, the 2012 presidential race is shaping up to be the most scrutinized electoral contest in American history, with every candidate’s every utterance vetted by droves of Twitterati, traditional news outlets, non-profits dedicated to objectivity, partisan media critics, and opposing campaigns themselves.   

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Kiwi Connected

Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 1:00pm

Does the U.S. government need to more aggressively fund the expansion of broadband? On July 19, a panel of experts gathered at the New America Foundation to discuss New Zealand's ambitious new broadband rollout and the lessons it might offer about broadband expansion here. Although New Zealand shares with the U.S. a similar goal of bringing ultrafast internet to three-quarters of its citizens, the government there is aggressively subsidizing installation of nearly 16,000 miles of new fiber optics, unlike the U.S. plan to rely primarily on private investment.

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The Power of Open

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 5:30pm

Music, arts, journalism, education, science, activism, search, and health. These are only some of the areas in which Creative Commons' “copyleft” licenses have been successfully applied since their creation in 2002, according to speakers at a New America Foundation event on June 29.

 

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Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights

Monday, June 20, 2011 - 5:30pm

If the prospect of a world without newspapers makes you wonder about the future of journalism itself—or even of the republic—you're in good company. The New America Foundation hosted several prominent thinkers about the journalism crisis on June 20, 2011, to help launch the new book Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights. Edited by Robert W. McChesney and Victor Pickard, the book features 32 groundbreaking essays outlining the nature of the crisis in journalism, its role in maintaining a healthy democracy, and its possible future.

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A Conversation On the Future of the Media

Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 3:00pm

On June 15, the New America Foundation hosted an event discussing the Federal Communications Commission report “Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age.” The report, released June 9 by the FCC Working Group on the Information Needs of Communities, provides an in-depth snapshot of the current state of U.S. media and makes policy recommendations based on an analysis of more than 600 interviews, thousands of public comments, and several workshops and site visits.

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Public Media and Political Influence

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 5:30pm

Public media in America are weathering new attacks on their funding and independence, at the same time they are being asked to fill the widening news and information gap left by the shifting media landscape. At the heart of these attacks is a question: Can government play a positive role in helping promote quality, independent journalism?

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