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December 2012
On December 13, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski urging the FCC to develop a robust record on minority and female broadcast media ownership before it considers relaxing rules intended to promote media ownership diversity. The Joint center notes the recent release of the FCC’s broadcast...
November 2012
"...In the final week of the campaign, both Fox News and MSNBC became even more extreme in how they differed from the rest of the press in coverage of the two candidates, the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism reported on Monday.
"On Fox News, the amount of negative coverage of [President] Obama increased -- from 47% in the first four weeks of October to...
August 2012
In advance of the November election, Univision Communications and a civil rights group stepped up a campaign to create an additional forum for presidential candidates to address issues important to Latinos and African Americans — and to get a person of color into the presidential debate schedule.
This week, the Commission on Presidential Debates selected Jim Lehrer of PBS News Hour, Bob...
October 2011
As part of its effort to promote the expansion of broadband services to all Americans, Time Warner Cable has pledged to carry $1 million worth of Public Service Announcements (PSAs) for the Broadband Opportunity Coalition (BBOC). The PSA series emphasizes the importance of broadband Internet adoption for economic success in the 21st Century economy, particularly for struggling communities....
October 2011
Investigative journalism is on life support, real news is increasingly replaced with fluff and democracy is suffering because of it, a Federal Communications Commission member said Monday.
“Hundreds of newsrooms have been shuttered, thousands of reporters walk the streets in search of a job rather than walk the beat in search of a story,” Michael Copps said at a public hearing on...
October 2011
The Federal Communications Commission held a nearly three hour-long public hearing at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication to discuss recent findings on the needs of local coverage in journalism.
The hearing consisted of three panels of media experts that focused on different topics: broadband access, broadcasting rights and new digital media. The topics...
Press Release
December 2012
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies submitted a response to the Federal Communications Commission regarding MB Docket No. 07-294, Promoting Diversification of Ownership in the Broadcasting Services. In this letter, Joint Center President and CEO Ralph B. Everett, along with Vice President and Media and Technology Institute Director Dr. John Horrigan, discusses the FCC's recent...
August 2012
Joint Center President and CEO Ralph Everett submitted a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates to express his concern about the lack of journalists of color serving as moderators for the 2012 presidential debates.
"I write to express the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies' deep concern that the Commission on Presidential Debates has not selected any journalists of...
