It's not the Internet that's killing newspapers. It's the equity-chasing investors and their friends at the FCC who have put outsize profits before a free press.

Mega-mergers are unlikely to provide any real benefits to citizens and consumers. Congress and the FCC must consider policy that serves the public interest amidst the changes and opportunities available with digital radio technology.

As the House Judiciary Committee plans to investigate the Sirius-XM merger, Congress needs to embrace a thoughtful and pragmatic alternative to the FCC's business-as-usual approach to media ownership.

Instead of trying to intimidate concerned citizens with ID checks, the FCC needs to give the public more than a few days' notice about their media ownership hearings and hold them at a time when more people can actually participate.

Net Neutrality could have a special energy in the political season, since every Republican and Democrat who uses the Internet is threatened by the prospect of corporate-controlled access to Web sites.

Instead of stepping up coverage of international affairs, American newspapers and television networks are steadily cutting back.

U.S. newspapers that spend more money on their newsrooms will make more money, according to a study which questioned the wisdom of the media industry's trend of cutting jobs to save costs.

U.S. telecom providers maximize profits and spend millions of dollars lobbying to create laws that decrease competitive challenges. This stands in marked contrast to the situation in those nations that are truly broadband leaders.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa outlined plans to blanket Los Angeles with wireless Internet access in 2009, in what would be one of the nation's largest urban Wi-Fi networks.

Pressures by media companies to generate ever-greater profits are threatening the very freedom the nation was built upon, former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite warned in a speech at Columbia University.

Like the nation's interstate highways, the Internet has become not only indispensable for the lifestyles we live, it's also a driving force behind how those lifestyles continue to evolve and the economies that fund them. We need to keep them open for all.

To succeed, the Snowe-Dorgan bill is going to need the support given to the cause last year. Letters need to be sent to Congress in support of the bill, and the Internet must continue to be utilized to save itself.

Not long ago, Americans considered local news and entertainment as necessary for our democracy and culture. In today's consolidated media system, however, truly local content is becoming a luxury good.

AT&T's merger agreement promising to abide by Net Neutrality rules means that in the new Congress, the debate is not about whether Net Neutrality should be the law of the land; it's about how and when Congress will move to make it so.

Five years ago, Minot, North Dakota had a toxic chemical disaster. The city's 6 commercial radio stations -- all owned by Clear Channel -- never aired warnings for local residents. In this interview, the 911 tapes are heard for the first time.

More than 3,500 activists from around the country met in Memphis last weekend to teach, learn, discuss and discover how to bring about a more democratic media regime in this country. But what does the media reform movement mean for African Americans?

The SavetheInternet.com Coalition is, of course, David to the Bell companies’ Goliath. Over the last two years the telcos spent more than $50 million lobbying Congress to change the nation’s telecom laws. But it was spent in vain.

Last year, the FCC promised to pick up Elliot Spitzer's investigation into payola. But rumors around Washington and the music industry suggest that the FCC is dropping the investigation and settling with broadcasting companies.

Sarah Olson, a 31-year-old independent writer and radio producer, finds herself in the targets of Army prosecutors who want to her to testify in a case against a Lieutenant who expressed his opposition to the war in Iraq.

All of us -- conservatives and liberals alike -- have a vested interest in being vigilant about media and media policy. We don't need to challenge a company's right to make a fat profit. But we must also not give away the store.