Media Alliance : Index

12/7: Tips and Strategies for Online Writing

1/9: Certification in Professional Proofreading - New Session

1/13: Improving Your Online Presence

2/13: Certification in Copyediting

11/21: Carlos Marentes: the Crisis of the System

11/21: Mexico 2010: Beyond Drugs, Guns and Immigration

12/1: Airplay: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio

12/1: Winter Practice Period: 27 Days of Change

12/1: End of the Year Solicitations Workshop

Fox News is No News Outlet
MA Op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle November 13, 2009 more

Raising Our Voices: Empowering Communities and Creating Justice
Raising Our Voices is an ongoing media training project that works with community leaders to ... more

16 Million Dollar Verdict in Strange Wrongful Death Case
Sue Wilson reports from Sacramento where the Entercom radio chain was assessed a 16 million dollar ... more

Community Access Preservation Act
Wisconsin Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin has introduced the Community Access Preservation Act to the ... more

Low-Power Radio Emerges from the House
The Community Radio Act of 2009 (H.R. 1147) emerged from the House Subcommittee on Communications, ... more

Mark Lloyd: The Next Progressive African-American Under Fire in DC
Media Alliance was saddened by the resignation of Van Jones, the Chair of our Board of Directors in ... more

Julius Genachowski, New FCC Chair, Signals He's Ready to Move on Net Neutrality
Update: Great news! The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking passed at the 10-22 FCC meeting. ... more

Anti-Hate Speech Resolution Passes SF Board of Supervisors Unanimously
Update: On September 10th, Clearchannel station KNEW announced they were dropping Savage Nation ... more

Media Alliance's Spot.us Tips
Spot.us is an exciting initiative in community-funded journalism that directly connects journalists ... more

Once More With Feeling: Media Must Report Gender Motivations for Mass Killings
A health club in Collier County, PA this week was the site of yet another horrific mass shooting by ... more

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by Tracy Rosenberg

MA started a new twice-monthly show on public access television on media democracy and media justice. Watch the videos! More coming soon.

The Dangers of Blogging
Intrigued by an alert sent to us by Xalid Aghliyev at the Media Rights Institute in Azerbajian, we looked a little deeper and found this cautionary ..

Basta Dobbs Campaign
Update: According to current reports: Dobbs is on his way out of CNN, possibly over to Fox News Channel. Lou Dobbs' brand of journalism is dangerous ..

A Rebirth of Cinema in Cambodia
The 3rd Annual Cambofest - the Film and Video Festival of Cambodia gets underway in less than a month. Read about the most far afield of MA's stable ..

On ACORN and Double Standards

by Phavia Kujichagulia

The current ACORN scandal once again proves that independent analysis and honest journalism often takes a backseat to propaganda, bias and overt ..

Landmark Finnish Law Makes Broadband Access a Legal Right
Finland has just passed a law making access to broadband a legal right for Finnish citizens.

No Working Class People in Journalism
A report by the British Cabinet Office offers stark evidence of the disappearance of the working class from the journalism profession, and the study ..

NY Post Fires Editor Critical of Racist Obama Cartoon

by Sam Stein

Sandra Guzman was quietly dismissed from her position as associate editor last week for reasons that are being hotly debated by personnel inside the ..

E-Waste: What to do with that old TV or Computer
Recycling resources in the East Bay that are responsible and community-oriented. For analog TV's, old computers ... and more.