Free Press

Type	Lobbying
Founded	2002, U.S.
Headquarters	Florence, MA
Industry	Media
Website	www.freepress.net

Free Press is a non-partisan media advocacy organization, and by membership the largest such organization in the United States.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[1]

Contents 1 Activities and Staff 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] 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 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.'" ^[1]

[edit] See also

• Media democracy

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} Net Neutrality's Quiet Crusader - washingtonpost.com

[edit] External links

• Official website
• National Conference on Media Reform (June 6-8, 2008, Minneapolis)
• Barker, Michael (2008). "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.)