2008 provides us with a great opportunity to put the issue of media reform in the national spotlight. Join us in Minneapolis and help us build this critical movement.

Registration is now open. Early registration for NCMR 2008 ends March 31st.

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Conference Program

Over three days, the conference will feature 60 fascinating panel discussions and workshops plus inspiring speeches, multimedia presentations, film screenings, roundtable meetings with policymakers, regional caucuses for you to meet media reformers from your home state, and dozens of receptions and parties.   NCMR 2008 will focus on broadening the media reform movement, envisioning the future of our media system, harnessing new technology for change, and achieving concrete policy victories through sustainable organizing.

The conference will be organized around five themed tracks:

• Media Policy Sessions: will overview media policy issues, discuss media problems and their policy solutions, convey the history of media policy, compare alternative regulation systems, etc.      
• Media Reform Activism and Movement Building Sessions: will include how-to workshops, "best practice" case studies in media reform activism, models for successful campaigns, strategies for engaging key constituencies, histories of media activism, etc.      
• Journalism and Independent Media Sessions: will focus on the state of journalism, look at how media reform impacts working journalists, and survey the diverse landscape of public, community, ethnic, alternative and new media.      
• Civil Rights, Social Justice, and Media Session: will discuss linkages between media and social and economic justice issues (for example: media rights as civil rights; media and voting rights; disparities in access and control of media).      
• The Next Frontier: will explore future directions in media reform activism in a world of changing technology, evolving policy paradigms and emerging social change strategies.  Sessions will focus on innovative concepts in media reform.