Big media broadcasters are calling for increased opportunities to gobble up more media properties, while minority broadcasters say consolidation is squeezing smaller stations out of business.

A Comcast-NBC Universal mega-merger would be bad news for consumers. And the FCC has jump-started its 2010 media ownership review process with a series of workshops. Public interest groups weighed in about research methods and focus.

The future of an open Internet got a whole lot brighter this week. On Monday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski delivered a landmark speech in which he called for new rules to protect Net Neutrality, the long-standing principle that bars Internet service providers from blocking or slowing any lawful content on the Web.

In response to ColorofChange.org's call for advertisers to stop airing commercials on the Glenn Beck Show after Beck's racist remarks, 57 companies have pulled their ads. And an appeals court threw out the FCC's ruling that cable companies can't control more than 30 percent of a market. But that doesn't mean that the agency gets to ignore the issue of capping cable ownership.

At a moment when technology and media are rapidly changing, the Free Press Summit explored the future of the Internet and the fate of journalism in the 21st century. More than 500 people packed a room on the seventh floor of the Newseum in Washington, D.C., to discuss the state of journalism, public media and the Internet in America.

The FCC came one step closer to increasing the diversity in media ownership by proposing changes that should give the public accurate information on the race, ethnicity and gender of broadcast station owners. And as technology becomes central to media distribution, anyone with a message to share must embrace their inner geek.

President-elect Barack Obama has chosen his Harvard classmate, Julius Genachowski, to head the Federal Communications Commission. And media reformers offer their best wishes for 2009

The FCC proposed new rules protecting Net Neutrality. But during the run-up to the vote, AT&T's chief lobbyist sent a letter to company employees asking them to weigh in against an open Internet. And a new bill in Congress could help beleaguered community TV stations across the country.

The FCC voted to punish Comcast for blocking users’ access to the Internet. And the People’s Production House arms up-and-coming journalists with the skills they need to create media.