Sustaining Democracy in a Digital Age

A Blog from New America's Media Policy Initiative

Could Dora the Explorer upload a public file? We think the answer is yes

July 27, 2012

Authors: Kristian Davis Bailey and Jason Smith

On Tuesday, July 17 we attended the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) demonstration of their new online interface for the uploading of television broadcasters’ “public inspection files” (PIFs).  [A video of the demonstration has been archived on the FCC’s website and is available here.]

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When student reporters seek broadcaster transparency, it is surprising what they find

  • By
  • Tom Glaisyer
April 27, 2012

Our work at the Media Policy Initiative has been in support of both broadcaster transparency and advancing the idea that journalism schools can be news producers, so we couldn’t have been happier when the two ideas intersected in a piece produced by Kent State University undergraduate and

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Scanning files is easy

  • By
  • Tom Glaisyer
April 6, 2012

It's been a quiet week in D.C. so we decided to explore one of the arguments being advanced around the  proceeding at the FCC related to bringing broadcaster public files into the 21st century.

Broadcasters have argued that

Bringing Broadcaster Public Files into the 21st Century

  • By
  • Tom Glaisyer
February 13, 2012

(Welcome to visitors from Bill Moyers' site. If you want to help collect public files please email me at glaisyer@newamerica.net.)

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