Media Policy Initiative

 

Information Community Case Study: Minneapolis-St. Paul

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Information Community Case Study: Minneapolis-St. Paul

In Minnesota's Twin Cities, the media are adapting old business models to meet a new demand for digitalized information.
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Information Community Case Study: Washington, D.C.

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Information Community Case Study: Washington, D.C.

In the nation's capital, promising new digital media and broadband initiatives face long-standing problems of unequal access.
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Information Community Case Study: Scranton

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Information Community Case Study: Scranton

MPI takes a look at an industrial city with untapped potential for digital media.
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Information Community Case Study: Seattle

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Information Community Case Study: Seattle

MPI analyzes an innovative information ecosystem that spans traditional and digital media.
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Broadcasting and the Public Interest

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Broadcasting and the Public Interest

Are broadcasters fulfilling their public interest obligations? Help us gather data as we investigate.
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Articles and Op-Eds

Print Culture 101: A Cheat Sheet and Syllabus
August 19 | The Atlantic
C. W. Anderson
Humboldt County's General Plan and its Communications Element
August 19 | Times-Standard
Sean McLaughlin
Tomorrow's Minneapolis Hearing on Internet's Future is Public's Chance To Speak Up
August 18
Amalia Deloney
Joshua Breitbart
What's The Appeal Of Wikileaks?
July 26 | NPR
C. W. Anderson
Impoverishing Democracy
July 22 | AOL News
Sean McLaughlin
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Media Policy Initiative Tweets

Events

Digital District: Local News and Online Media Access in Washington
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 5:00pm
Decoding Digital Activism
Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 5:30pm
Shaping Media Policy for the 21st Century
Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 2:00pm
Making Media Work (WEBCAST ONLY)
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 12:15pm
Who Pays for the News?
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 9:45am
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Latest Blog Posts

Where's MPI?: Media Policy Initiative Week in Review
Allie Perez
Friday, September 3, 2010
*First of all, we would like to announce that Version 1 of Daniel Amzallag and...
Open Education in Higher Ed: Textbooks, OpenCourseWare, and the “S” Word
Thursday, September 2, 2010
This is a guest post from Timothy Vollmer, an Open Policy Fellow for Creative...
Welcome to Internet Freedom, MN Style
Amalia Deloney
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Originally published at the Center for Media Justice’s Media Action Grassroots...
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About MPI

The Media Policy Initiative, part of the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative, formulates policy and regulatory reforms to foster the development of a healthy media that satisfies the needs of democracy in the 21st century. MPI’s fellows and staff research, analyze, and promote policies that are committed to maximizing the public interest potential of innovative media, supported by partnerships with communities, researchers, industry, and public interest groups. By studying the social and economic ramifications of policymaking – particularly on poor, rural, and other underserved constituencies – MPI provides in-depth, objective research, analysis, and findings for policy decisionmakers and the general public.

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Media Policy Initiative Staff

Kat Aaron
Kat Aaron
Knight Media Policy Fellow

Kat Aaron is a writer and project manager at the Investigative Reporting...

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C. W. Anderson
Knight Media Policy Fellow

As a part-time fellow with the Knight Media Policy Initiative,...

Joshua Breitbart
Joshua Breitbart
Senior Field Analyst, Open Technology Initiative

As Senior Field Analyst for the Open Technology Initiative at the New...

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Jessica Clark
Knight Media Policy Fellow

Jessica Clark directs the Center for Social Media’s Future of Public Media...

Steve Coll
Steve Coll
President

Steve Coll is president of New America Foundation, and a...

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Sasha Costanza-Chock
Knight Media Policy Fellow

Sasha Costanza-Chock is a researcher and mediamaker who works on the...

Jessica Durkin
Jessica Durkin
Knight Media Policy Fellow

Jessica Durkin is the founder of InOtherNews.us, a directory of online,...

Tom Glaisyer
Tom Glaisyer
Knight Media Policy Fellow

As a Knight Media Policy Fellow at New America, Tom Glaisyer coordinates the...

Kara Hadge
Kara Hadge
Research Associate, Media Policy Initiative

Kara Hadge is a research associate for the Media Policy Initiative at the...

James Losey
James Losey
Program Associate, Open Technology Initiative

James Losey is a Program Associate with the Open Technology Initiative at...

Andrés Martinez
Andrés Martinez
Director, Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program

Andrés Martinez directs New America's Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program,...

Sean McGlaughlin
Sean McLaughlin
Knight Media Policy Fellow

Sean McLaughlin is an educator, media access advocate and non-profit...

Sascha Meinrath
Sascha Meinrath
Research Director, Wireless Future Program; Director, Open...
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Philip Napoli
Knight Media Policy Fellow

Philip M. Napoli (Ph.D., Northwestern University) is a Professor of...

Victor Pickard
Victor Pickard
Senior Research Fellow, Open Technology Initiative and Media...

As a Research Fellow for both the Open Technology Initiative and Media...

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Troy K. Schneider
Director, Media and Communications

As Director of Media and Communications, Troy K. Schneider is responsible...

Wendy Seltzer
Wendy Seltzer
Adjunct Research Fellow, Open Technology Initiative, Media...

As a fellow with the Open Technology Initiative and the Media Policy...

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