Media Policy & Ownership


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General

Federal Communications Commission, “2006 Review of the Media Ownership Rules

The Museum of Broadcast Communications “Public Interest, Convenience and Necessity

 

Articles

Frontline, "Media Giants"

Mark Crispin Miller, "The Big Ten", The Nation, January 2002.

Alison Gregor, “What’s Spanish for ‘Big Media”, 2003.

Global Issues, "Corporate Influence in the Media"

 

 

Online Publications

Online NewsHour “How relaxing FCC ownership rules have affected the media business

Media Access Project, Comprehensive 2002 Media Ownership Proceeding in the FCC

Journalism.org, Media Ownership and Deregulation

Media Channel, "Why Ownership Rules Matter And What You Can Do"

XChange Online

Communications Daily: The authoritative service dedicated to covering telecom regulation, legislation and policy development. Written by journalists who understand the industry inside and out.

 

 

 

Reports

Federal Communications Commission, Media Ownership Working Group Studies

Free Expression Policy Project. “Fact Sheets on Media Democracy

New America Foundation, “Citizen’s Guide to the Airwaves”, July 2003.

Books

Ken Auletta, Backstory: Inside the Business of News (New York: Penguin Books, 2003)

Ben H. Bagdikian, The New Media Monopoly (Boston: Beacon Press, 2004)

Erik Barnouw, Conglomerates and the Media (New York: New Press, 1998)

Elliot D. Cohen, News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership And Its Threat To Democracy (New York: Prometheus Books, 2005)

Mark Cooper, Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age, Center for Information and Society, Stanford Law School

Mark Cooper, The Case Against Media Consolidation (pdf), 2006.

Gillian Doyle, Media Ownership: Concentration, Convergence and Public Policy (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002)

Dan Gillmor, We the Media (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2004)

James T. Hamilton, All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News (New York: Princeton University Press, 2003)

Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (New York: Pantheon, 2002)

Robert W. McChesney, Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1997)

Robert W. McChesney, The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2004)

Robert W. McChesney, Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times (New York: New Press, 2000)

Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols, Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media (New York: Seven Stories Press 2002)

Paul Starr, The Creation of the Media (New York: Basic Books, 2004)

Kathryn Montgomery, Target: Prime Time (Oxford University Press, 2001)