Media and Democracy Coalition
| 2005 |
http://www.media-democracy.net/
- Topic(s) of work
- Media ownership, FCC, US State Governments, Advocacy, Grassroots organizing, Media Reform Movement
Description
The Media and Democracy Coalition is an affiliation of national, state and local consumer, public interest, organized labor and media reform organizations representing tens of millions of Americans. NAMAC is a member of the national steering committee oversees the coalition's governance. The Media and Democracy Coalition is committed to realizing a media landscape that provides an uninhibited market place of ideas, serves the public's needs, and reflects and responds to local and national communities. Our overarching goal is to promote a policy agenda that reduces media concentration, ensures open and non-discriminatory access across platforms, and provides access to the communications infrastructure that is so critical to modern life in communities of all income levels and in all parts of the country.
Network Role
- Research
- Activism
- Public Policy
- Education
Publications and Resources
Reports
- Mark Cooper. Biased Questions Yield Biased Answers. 2001.
Members (Institutions)
- Future of Music Coalition, Washington, DC, US
- Alliance for Community Media, Washington, DC, US
- Center for Creative Voices in the Media, Washington, DC, US
- Consumer Federation of America, Washington, DC, US
- Common Cause, Washington, DC, US
- Southwest Regional Office, Austin, Texas
- Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Washington, DC, US
- Media Alliance, Oakland, CA, US
- Media Tank, Philadelphia, PA, US
- National Hispanic Media Coalition, Pasadena, California, US
- New America Foundation, Washington, DC, US
- Prometheus Radio Project, Philadelphia, PA, US
- Reclaim the Media, Seattle, WA, US
- Center for Media Justice, Oakland, CA, US
- Benton Foundation, Washington, DC, US
- Center for Media and Democracy (CCTV), Burlington, Vermont, US
- Center for Digital Democracy, Washington, DC, US
- Center for International Media Action, Brooklyn, NY, US
- Consumers Union, Washington, DC, US
- Institute for Public Representation, Washington, DC, US
- Media Access Project, Washington, DC, US
- Media Democracy Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, US
- Free Press, Northampton, MA, US
- National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC), San Francisco, California, US
- Newspaper Guild/CWA, Washington, DC, US
- Media Empowerment Project, Washington, D.C., US
- United States Conference of Catholic Bishops,