Archives: Media Ownership

Misguided actions by decision-makers in DC are bad for our communities and for consumers. Public interest organizations in more than a dozen states are exposing this today and the Media & Democracy Coalition is engaging citizens on an ongoing basis around these issues at town hall meetings and other community forums.

Today, in a dozen states around the country, from Florida to California to Washington to Maine, the Media and Democracy Coalition is releasing new research and shining the light on the FCC's new media ownership proceeding, and we are joining together with local communities nationwide to ask the FCC to clean up its act.

Mergers between newspapers and TV stations in the same market (also known as "cross-ownership") are front and center in the ongoing media ownership proceeding at the Federal Communications Commission. This new research, conducted by Dr. Mark Cooper, the Director of Research at the Consumers Federation of America, documents that more media mergers in our already highly consolidated media markets will reduce already insufficient local news coverage and eliminate diverse voices and viewpoints, harming local communities across the country.

Read the Reports (PDF):

California: Executive Summary and Report

Texas: Executive Summary and Report

Pennsylvania: Executive Summary and Report

Michigan: Executive Summary and Report

Florida: Executive Summary and Report

Ohio: Executive Summary and Report

Washington: Executive Summary and Report

Oregon: Executive Summary and Report

Arkansas: Executive Summary and Report

Virginia: Executive Summary and Report

Montana: Executive Summary and Report

Maine: Executive Summary and Report