Living in a time when media has increasing power to shape the values and opinions of our society, Media Tank works to provide communities with tools to understand and participate in critical decisions about our nation's media system and culture. Through our community education, grassroots organizing and national field-building, we are helping to define and build an emerging movement for media justice and reform as a key strategy for social change.

Media Tank’s work includes media education and grassroots organizing around issues like media ownership and consolidation, copyright and intellectual property, the state of journalism and more. Media Tank is also actively engaged with other groups across the country in building a national network and infrastructure for the growing media reform movement.

We believe that media literacy and media policy education go hand-in-hand; you cannot fully critique a media product (a magazine ad, a music video, a film, etc.) without understanding the forces behind-the-scenes that created it. Neither can you effectively criticize the corporate media model without analyzing the products and services they provide. Media Tank’s programs and events seek to provide a holistic understanding of our nation’s media system and culture.