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Top Ten: A Year in Media as Told by LWR

by Matthew L. Schafer Major developments made the last six months of 2010 an exciting time to follow the ever-changing media landscape. From the passage of net neutrality to the Wikileaks’ saga to a call for defunding public media, 2010 … Continue reading

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Subpoenas Against Media Recently Top 3,000, It’s Time to Pass the Shield Bill SPJ Says

by Matthew L. Schafer On Tuesday Kevin Smith, president of the Society of Professional Journalists, wrote an open editorial advocating for the passage of a federal shield law that is currently sitting in the Senate.  The House version of the … Continue reading

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Week in Media: Rewind

by Matthew L. Schafer Beyond the FCC Comcast/NBCU hearing in Chicago this week, it was a relatively slow week in media.  At the Comcast/NBCU hearing, Josh Silver, president and CEO of Free Press, commented on Julius Genachowski’s truancy, which I … Continue reading

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