When the guy who ruined the Internet with banner ads tells you that a new kind of advertising might destroy journalism, it tends to get your attention.
FCC chief: Reagan could be proud of ‘Obamaphone’ program
Filed Under: Benton Headlines
Acting Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn forcefully defended her agency's phone subsidy program for the poor in a speech.
Senate panel advances media shield bill
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The Senate Judiciary Committee passed legislation to protect journalists from having to cooperate with government investigations but made sure to limit the safeguard to professional news gatherers.
Recapturing Our Stories: Active Learning for Media and Racial Justice!
Filed Under: UCC Media Justice
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Images of people of color and other historically marginalized communities proliferate in the media. At times they inspire, but more- often-than-not they perpetuate stereotypes and misinformation rather than empowerment and liberation.
Behind the scenes a web of rules, regulations and production not only create, but disseminate these images… often at the expense of our communities’ health and wellbeing. Fortunately this is not the end of the story!
Join us for an interactive and creative session that explores the ways that story-telling, organizing, and technology can help to shape the stories that impact our lives. Bring your own stories as the United Church of Christ’s media justice ministry and the Center for Media Justice join forces to consider these questions and look for ways to promote racial justice through the media.
This session will be held on Tuesday, October 1 at the First Congregational United Church of Christ, 945 G St NW, Washington DC 20001 (near Metro Center). The session will start at 10:30 am and end at 12:30 with lunch. RSVPs are necessary so we can provide you with lunch.
The workshop will occur after the UCC's annual Everett C. Parker Lecture and Awards Breakfast, which will start at 8 am. Limited complimentary tickets to the breakfast may be available, please email cleanza@alhmail.com if you would like to attend both events.
FCC’s wishy-washy rulemaking might doom net neutrality in court
Filed Under: Benton Headlines
When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted the Open Internet Order in 2010 -- forbidding Internet Service Providers from blocking services or charging content providers for access to the network -- there was one thing the FCC was careful not to do. What the FCC did not do is declare that Internet service providers are "common carriers," a classification that could have opened the door to even stricter regulations.
LPTV Coalition: OTA Audience Could Be More Like 100 Million
Filed Under: Benton Headlines
In the hours before a hearing on video regulation and the reauthorization of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA), the LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition, formed to advocate for LPTV rights in the upcoming spectrum incentive auction, has told House Communications Subcommittee Greg Walden (R-OR) that the universe of people who can still watch free, over-the-air TV is probably more like 81 million to 100 million, rather than the lower estimates based on over-the-air (OTA) only households.
Here’s what you miss by only talking to white men about the digital revolution and journalism
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Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on The Press, Politics and Public Policy and the Nieman Journalism Lab launched Riptide, a new project about the disruption of journalism by technology.
Consumers worried about NSA intrusions have little recourse
Filed Under: Benton Headlines
Consumers worried about the National Security Agency's ability to read even encrypted electronic data have few options, according to cybersecurity and privacy experts. And some experts said the NSA's reported actions to crack the sophisticated technology that masks data traveling over the Internet may have made that information more vulnerable, possibly exposing Web users to criminal hackers.
Verizon-FCC Court Fight Takes On Regulating Net
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Few people would dispute that one of the biggest contributors to the extraordinary success of the Internet has been the ability of just about anyone to use it to offer any product, service or type of information they want. How to maintain that success, however, is the subject of a momentous fight that resumes this week in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
‘PBS NewsHour’ Begins Its Overhaul
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The 38-year-old “PBS NewsHour” began a new era, adding Saturday and Sunday newscasts for the first time and preparing for the debut on Sept 9 of Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff as the new weeknight anchor team and the first female co-anchors at any network.