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Free Press is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media and involve the public in media policymaking. Through education, organizing and advocacy, we promote diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, and universal, affordable access to communications.

What does Free Press stand for?

First and foremost, Free Press is about having the core governmental policies that create and shape our media system be the result of informed and widespread public participation. If a democratic and open debate takes place, Free Press will happily accede to its outcome. We believe the more public participation there is in media policy debates, the more likely the resulting policies will serve the public interest.

But as such a debate is generated, what, then, does Free Press stand for?

Free Press works for policies that will bring more diverse and local media ownership of our commercial media, and more competitive markets. Free Press believes local and minority ownership is to be strongly encouraged. We believe that it is imperative that one of the core promises of the First Amendment — the right to start your own medium — be protected and nurtured if this is to be a free society. Media should not be the exclusive province of billionaires and hundred-millionaires. Free Press believes that advertising and commercialism must be carefully regulated. Free Press believes that strong democratic trade unions are an important and mandatory protection for the public against concentrated commercial media power.

Free Press also believes that a healthy media system must have a very strong non-profit and non-commercial sector. This sector can and must include a wide range of media, ranging from public broadcasters to community and low-power broadcasters to community-based websites, newsletters and ‘zines.

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