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Free Press is a nonprofit advocacy group focused on media policy, democracy, and digital rights. The site provides news, policy analysis, reports, and campaigns on media ownership, net neutrality, broadband access, and telecommunications regulation.
More resources on Media Policy & Regulation
Ofcom
The UK communications regulator's site, publishing broadcasting codes, spectrum and online-safety decisions, consultations, and annual media-use research. Use it to read the actual regulatory instruments and evidence base rather than press coverage of them.
FCC Media Bureau
Landing page for the US agency division that licenses broadcast stations and administers ownership, cable, and satellite rules. It links to rulemaking dockets, orders, and filing guides, so you can trace how a media rule was actually made.
Tech Policy Podcast
Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. You can find us at https://techpolicy.press/, where you can join the newsletter.
Four Theories of the Press
The 1956 essay collection that set out authoritarian, libertarian, social-responsibility, and Soviet-communist models of press systems. Reading it gives you the normative vocabulary later media-policy scholarship argues with, plus a clear view of its Cold War assumptions.
The Problem of the Media
A political-economy critique of US communication policy, tracing how ownership concentration and lobbying shaped broadcasting and copyright rules. It argues media structures are policy choices, and supplies the reform-movement history behind that claim.
Global Communication
Edited Wadsworth volume in which media scholars survey international news flows, transnational broadcasters, global advertising and public relations, and communication law. Readers gain a structural picture of who owns and regulates media across borders.