Contact one of these local groups to learn how you can get involved, volunteer, and support their projects. If you are creating a campaign or project, use these tools to find allies and partners to work with.
- Find organizations that opposed media concentration in your state with the Media Policy Action Directory. Print out your own copy of this organizers' booklet from the Center for International Media Action — featuring information on hundreds of groups and designed to help you build strategic alliances locally and nationwide.
- Find groups working on media issues in your town, state or region, by searching the Free Press database by location or issue.
- Support community stations: Local noncommercial TV and radio stations are always looking for volunteers, allies and other forms of support. Contact yours to get involved!
- Find local community radio stations with the directory of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters
- Public access cable TV stations are centers for training, local productions, civic affairs and free-speech programming in many towns. See if there's one in your area with this members list from the Alliance for Community Media.
- Write to your local station: this tool from Congress.org can help you contact local and national media. Search by zip code, journalist or media outlet name.
If you have a complaint about the quality of programming on local TV or radio, be sure to submit your comments by letter or email so the station is required to keep it on file.
- Speak out at a FCC hearing: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been scheduling official hearings on local media around the country. Find out if the FCC is coming to your area and learn how you can get involved to make your voice heard with help from Free Press. And urge the FCC to set up a hearing in your state.
- Attend a "Future of Media" meeting: Advocacy group Free Press has been organizing town hall-style meetings about media in several different towns around the country, and some of the FCC commissioners have been attending. Find out if there's one coming to your area and learn how to get involved.
