#USA #Journalism #News #LocalNews #Newspapers #Media #MediaPolicy: "This paper plays out against a backdrop of continued closures and diminished local news reporting across much of the United States. It explores the role that media policy can and should play in supporting local journalism.

In examining this topic, we investigate three fundamental questions:

What is local media policy?
What are the key existential issues and/or problems local media policy must wrestle with?
What potential solutions to the local news crisis can media policy potentially help address?
The core of our response to these questions is derived from a series of five public webinars hosted by the Tow Center. Through these events, we invited a range of industry and academic experts to share their perspectives on areas related to these major themes.

Our conversations explored the scope of media policy, barriers to implementation, opportunities for policy to make a difference, and some of the unique characteristics that shape U.S. media policy and attitudes toward potential policy interventions.

To this, we have added further context and updates on some of the latest policy developments, based on a literature review and our continued interest in this subject."

https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/building-a-stronger-local-media-ecosystem-the-role-of-media-policy.php

RT @EuAvObservatory: '@arbakokalari discusses the #DSA during @sweden2023eu conference on the impact of #EU platform regulation on #democratic discourse and #mediapolicy.

#EU2023SE conference is attended by @SusanneN, our Executive Director.

#EMFA

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ArbaKokalari/status/1617560595154321415

Hello world!

* #Introduction in my new #Mastodon home, as I've just changed instance (& for new folks around!)

I'm a 🇧🇷 researcher in #MediaPolicy & #MediaEconomics at the University of Salzburg 🇦🇹.

I'm interested in media/tech structure (ownership, economics, governance) & political theory.

My current big project is the management of the Euromedia Ownership Monitor, which will be released in Jan (www.media-ownership.eu).

I'm a proud dad & I like to play heavy metal 🎸 in the free time 😊

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The world is just so fucking interesting, I want to collect all the information and jam it into my tiny, failing brainpan.

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Hello floss.social world! Thanks to @admin & team for taking care of this space. Reposting my #introduction from mstdn.social here:

I'm Karina, born and raised in 🇵🇪
I'm a journalist, and I'm relatively new to the #dataprivacy and #mediapolicy beat in 🇺🇸
I'm a foodie with no influencer intentions / Travel whenever I can -> 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 in the last 3 months / Prefers non-fiction books / You can also meet my doggy 💕 Chimi here: https://mstdn.social/@pressgirlk/109247551327052485

Fairness Reconsidered: Receiving Audience as a Commons

The conceit of the Fairness Doctrine was that broadcast spectrum was a commons, and a limited public resource, arbitrarily allocated to a given (usually private) party. The right came with the obligation to manage this common resource in the public interest....

[What if we hold that] that public mindshare is itself a commons, and should be held and managed in the public interest. There’s a point at which reach or penetration themselves become exploitation of a public resource, and concern over the impacts of such reach are legitimate public concerns.

In information theory, a Sender transmits through a Channel to a Reciver. Fairness Doctrine was concerned with the receiver, but justified on the basis of the channel. I'm arguing that receiver itself is a valid justification.

An idea I'm kicking around. As with other recent posts, much of the meat is in comments, though the main article does cover much of the basics in this case.

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/9e961b604c870139d3b1002590d8e506

#FairnessDoctrine #Media #MediaPolicy #InformationTheory #DonaldPMullally #DigitalMedia #OnlineMedia