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Feature Articles
- Media: Breaking Up Is Easy To Do  -  at Business Week (Mar 17, 2005)
- FCC's Martin Takes On a Delicate Post  -  at The Los Angeles Times (reg. req'd) (Mar 17, 2005)
- FCC's New Standards-Bearer  -  at The Washington Post (reg. req'd) (Mar 17, 2005)
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Opinion & Editorials
- Learn true value of public television  -  at Des Moines Register (Mar 17, 2005)
- Deceitful news  -  at Contra Costa Times. (Mar 17, 2005)
- Will is all wet about PBS  -  at Charlotte Observer (Mar 17, 2005)
- Hungry Media Fill Up on Rice  -  at The Washington Post (reg. req'd) (Mar 17, 2005)
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Audio
- FCC Nominee Favors Strong Anti-Decency Fines  -  at NPR (Mar 17, 2005)
- Powell Leaves Mixed FCC Legacy  -  at NPR (Mar 16, 2005)
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- American Journalism Review
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  Latest Developments
Senator Asks FCC to Probe Gov't Videos
(AP) - A Senate Democrat influential on telecommunications issues has asked federal regulators to investigate whether any laws were broken by broadcasters who aired video news releases produced by the government. Stations may have violated the law if they used the video releases without disclosing that the government was the source of the information, Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, wrote in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission. More...
  News Stories
- Senator Asks FCC to Probe Gov't Videos  -  AP via Yahoo! News  (Mar 17, 2005)
- Sunshine State's law one of toughest  -  at Atlanta Journal-Constitution  (Mar 17, 2005)
- Investigator says CBS reportshouldn't stain Rather's career  -  at Boston Globe  (Mar 17, 2005)
- State of Journalism Lamented in New Book  -  AP via Yahoo! News  (Mar 17, 2005)
- FCC asked to investigate agencies' video news releases  -  at Government Executive Magazine  (Mar 17, 2005)
- Bush Defends Offering Video News Releases  -  at The New York Times (reg. req'd)  (Mar 17, 2005)
- Student Press Law Center Raising Endowment  -  AP via Yahoo! News  (Mar 16, 2005)
- CNN Renews Deal with Talk Show Host Larry King  -  Reuters via Yahoo! News  (Mar 16, 2005)
- Republican Skilled in Art of the Deal Is Elevated to F.C.C. Chairman  -  at The New York Times (reg. req'd)  (Mar 16, 2005)
- Bush chooses Martin as next FCC chairman  -  at CNET.com  (Mar 16, 2005)
- Bush to Name Kevin Martin New FCC Chairman  -  AP via Yahoo! News  (Mar 16, 2005)
- Kevin Martin to replace Michael Powell as FCC chair  -  at CNN/Money  (Mar 16, 2005)
- Cost, volume of government secrets explode  -  at Atlanta Journal-Constitution  (Mar 15, 2005)
- Liberty Media to Spin Off Ascent Media  -  AP via Yahoo! News  (Mar 15, 2005)
- FCC Won't Penalize ABC Over Locker Room Skit  -  at The Los Angeles Times (reg. req'd)  (Mar 15, 2005)
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  Related Web Sites
- Committee to Protect Journalists -  dedicated to defending the rights and safety of journalists around the world. Tallies attacks on journalists, and documents the worst places to be a journalist.
- Credibility in Question -  examines recent scandals and lapses in journalistic judgment. From PBS' Online NewsHour.
- Watching the Media: Who Owns What -  guide to what the major media companies own. By Aaron Moore for the Columbia Journalism Review. Also: an interactive chart of the Big Ten's media holdings, from The Nation.
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting -  aims to contribute to the resolution of conflict and to the strengthening of civil society, democracy, and the rule of law.
- Investigative Reporters and Editors -  grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting. Site features Extra! Extra!, a roundup of notable investigative work.
- Poynter Institute for Media Studies -  dedicated to teaching and inspiring journalists and media leaders. Site features journalism-focused columns, blogs, and forums.
- Reporters Without Borders - Reporters Sans Frontières -  provides information on reporters who wrote freely and are in jeopardy, worldwide. Organizes petitions and letter writing campaigns in defense of threatened journalists.
- mediachannel.org -  media issues supersite featuring criticism, breaking news, and investigative reporting from organizations worldwide. Also has community boards, issue guides, action alerts, and a guide to media ownership.
- Newspaper Association of America -  nonprofit representing dailies and nondailies. Site includes information on circulation and readership, trends and numbers, and more.
- Press Freedom Survey -  annual report that rates press freedom, or lack of freedom, on a country-by-country basis. From Freedom House, a non-partisan human rights advocacy group.
- Project for Excellence in Journalism -  initiative by journalists from all media to clarify and raise the standards of American journalism. Online home of the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Committee of Concerned Journalists
- CJRDaily -  critiques and analyses of political news coverage. From the Columbia Journalism Review.
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