Free Press (organization)
- Free Press (organization)
Infobox Company
name = Free Press
type = Lobbying
foundation = 2002, U.S.
location = Florence, MA
key_people =
industry = Media
num_employees =
homepage = [http://www.freepress.net/ www.freepress.net]
Free Press is a non-partisan media advocacy organization, and by membership the largest such organization in the United States.Fact|date=September 2008 It was founded by media critic Robert W. McChesney, journalist John Nichols and current executive director Josh Silver. The current chair of Free Press is Columbia Professor Tim Wu. In the 2000s, Free Press has grown into among the most prominent organizations criticizing media consolidation and defending network neutrality. It has a membership of over 500,000, making it in membership terms the largest media advocacy group in the United States. [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/27/AR2008032703618.html Net Neutrality's Quiet Crusader - washingtonpost.com ] ]
Activities and Staff
Free Press' aim is to increase the public's stake in the debate of appropriate media policy with the goal of creating a more competitive media landscape and promoting a media system more friendly to the public interest. In the period from 2002-2008, Free Press was one of the leading organizations in the Save the Internet campaign and the [http://www.stopbigmedia.com Stop Big Media] coalition. Free Press is also the organizer of the large annual National Conference for Media Reform.
Free Press employs a full time lobbying staff in Washington, D.C. Free Press' senior lobbyist, Ben Scott, has been described as a "driving force for 'net neutrality.'" [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/27/AR2008032703618.html Net Neutrality's Quiet Crusader - washingtonpost.com ] ]
ee also
*Media democracy
References
External links
* [http://www.freepress.net/ Official website]
* [http://www.freepress.net/conference/ National Conference on Media Reform (June 6-8, 2008, Minneapolis)]
* Barker, Michael (2008). " [http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9167 The Liberal Foundations of Media Reform? Creating Sustainable Funding Opportunities for Radical Media Reform] ", Global Media Journal, 1 (2), June 2008. (This article outlines the problems of media reform movement accepting funding from the Ford Foundation, and proposes solutions.)
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