Explainers

The best remedies ensure that people have the news and information they need to solve problems, hold power to account and feel connected to one another.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has signed on to a bill that would extend funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program, but more support is needed.

Local journalism is shrinking and disappearing in states across the country. A trio of Wisconsin bills would address the decline in local news.

Each February, Media 2070 takes time to acknowledge and amplify our collective power. Simply put, Black narrative power is resistance, care, love, beauty and abundance.

Nearly 23-million households will lose access to high-speed internet unless Congress invests more money in the Affordable Connectivity Program.

Free Press has been fighting to protect the open internet for as long as industry shills and companies like Comcast have been working to destroy it.

Here’s what we’re feeling optimistic about as we work to build the foundation of a just media system and the true multiracial democracy this country needs.

We’ve all heard about the perils facing local journalism. But in spite of all the reasons for despair, 2023 also gave us lots of reasons for hope.

More journalists were killed in the first month of this war than in any conflict in the past 30 years.

All of Musk’s decisions have been wrong, with consequences that have undermined public discourse, imperiled democracy, and harmed people both at home and abroad.