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These research libraries, databases and search tools can help you get the information you need on media ownership, specific corporations and the impact of the media.
- Understanding the issues
- Searching for key documents
- Researching corporations
- Facts and statistics
Understanding the issues
- This Media Ownership Overview from HearUsNow explains the basic issues.
- What's at stake: specific information about how media ownership affects democratic debate, access to information, diversity of content, and more.
- Frequently Asked Questions about media ownership
- The Free Press Library has an indexed, searchable database of readings about media issues.
Searching for key documents
Try searching for your state, city or town, words that describe your community or the issue you are working on, names of corporations, plus terms like "media ownership," "concentration" "local ownership" "consolidation".
- Search the HearUsNow.org library for advocacy group reports, Congressional testimony, FCC filings and other documents that relate to your community and the issues you are concerned about.
- Find out the status of federal bills on media and communications with the Free Press bill tracker
- Use the Thomas government database to search the text of legislation, Congressional records and committee proceedings
- The Government Printing Office's GPOAccess contains other federal resources like the Federal Register, where regulations from the FCC and other agencies are published
Researching Corporations
- The Corporate Accountability Project's Activist's Guide to researching corporations
- Who owns what: dig into media concentration with this guide to all the publishing, broadcasting, cable, movies, music and other businesses of major media companies, from the Colombia Journalism Review.
- Deals between media companies: Find out who is working with who with this database from American Press Institute. The Convergence Tracker: News organizations are constantly making deals with each other to share resources, cross-promote and cut costs. .
- Money In Politics: Track the political contributions of the media industries with the help of the Center for Responsive Politics
- Data on the top companies in broadcasting, cable and satellite TV from Center for Public Integrity
- Data, surveys and statistics on media industry and business: resources collected by IwantMedia.com
Facts and Statistics
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