Owning Our Airwaves

Free Press is pleased to invite you to a community dialogue on the state of the media featuring Rep. Mike Doyle and Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps. Please join us on Sept. 26 for a discussion of the changes needed to guarantee Pittsburgh residents access to in-depth investigative reporting and quality local news.

This fall is a critical moment for the future of our airwaves. The FCC will soon review its media-ownership rules and faces massive industry pressure to do away with the remaining public-interest protections. And in Congress the “super committee” charged with trimming the federal budget will weigh cuts to public media.

If you care about preserving community and public media, now is the time to engage with federal policymakers on a local level. 

What: Owning Our Airwaves: A Community Dialogue with Media Policymakers
When: Monday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:30.
Where: McConomy Auditorium, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh
Who: Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.), FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, Free Press Policy Director Matt Wood, President and CEO of WQED Multimedia Deborah Acklin, Khari Mosley of the Urban Green Growth Collaborative , Chris Ramirez of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Jon Peha, Carnegie Mellon University and Marge Krueger, Communications Workers of America. 

For more information please contact Free Press Program Coordinator Libby Reinish at lreinish@freepress.net

Event co-sponsors: Carnegie Mellon University, Common Cause, Pittsburgh Black Media Federation, SLB Radio Productions, Inc., Tube City Community Media, Inc., and Urban Green Growth Collaborative.

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