
TMCmedia: 3 GOP filibusters re: extending unemployment cost 200K people their benefits http://bit.ly/NXvgC W/@mattrothschild @thenation #p2 #economy
TMCmedia: 3 GOP filibusters re: extending unemployment cost 200K people their benefits http://bit.ly/NXvgC W/@mattrothschild @thenation #p2 #economy

By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger On Friday, we learned that the U.S. unemployment rate officially broke 10% for the first time since the early Reagan years. This is about as bad as it gets for a modern, developed economy...

TMCmedia: rt @beyondbroadcast Don't miss my 3-part series analyzing The Big Thaw and Reconstructing Journalism: http://bit.ly/3tGFBH #futureofnews
TMCmedia: rt @beyondbroadcast Don't miss my 3-part series analyzing The Big Thaw and Reconstructing Journalism: http://bit.ly/3tGFBH #futureofnews

TMCmedia: "Willingness to hear #progressive media is increasing dramatically" says Larry Irving. Why we have to act now: http://bit.ly/1ESowW #bigthaw
TMCmedia: "Willingness to hear #progressive media is increasing dramatically" says Larry Irving. Why we have to act now: http://bit.ly/1ESowW #bigthaw

“My bottom line is that demographics are changing in this country dramatically. Technology is changing dramatically. Willingness to hear progressive media is increasing dramatically,” says Larry Irving, former Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information at the U.S. De...

TMCmedia: A tale of 2 reports: Part III—Learning from progressive media experiments http://bit.ly/1mjM0n By @beyondbroadcast #futureofnews #bigthaw
TMCmedia: A tale of 2 reports: Part III—Learning from progressive media experiments http://bit.ly/1mjM0n By @beyondbroadcast #futureofnews #bigthaw

TMCmedia: RT @ClaraJeffery Iran charges @motherjones contributor Shane Bauer and companions with spying http://bit.ly/2hwOPp
TMCmedia: RT @ClaraJeffery Iran charges @motherjones contributor Shane Bauer and companions with spying http://bit.ly/2hwOPp

By Raquel Brown, Media Consortium Blogger Senate Democrats in the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) finally squelched Republican boycotts and passed a version of the climate bill yesterday morning...

By Nezua, Media Consortium Blogger While many pundits and political analysts are musing about what Tuesday’s mixed bag election results mean for Obama administration, New America Media reports that “there’s another trend to watch; the surprising prominence of immigration politics.” Even in states ...

“The future of media for me would be the type of content that I want anytime, anywhere, on any device,” says Ashish Soni, who directs the Information Technology Program at the University of Southern California. On...

Some people have viewed the new media paradigm as a perpetual rise in disintermediation, in which authors go directly to readers. But mediation—and the organizations that benefit from it—may simply be shifting from one place of control to another. Co...

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium Blogger The House released a final version of the health reform bill. It has a public option all right, but not the robust version progressives were hoping for. The public plan would only cover 2% of Americans and premiums will cost more than anticipated...

by Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger Last week, President Barack Obama released key legislation designed to fight the banking industry’s too-big-to-fail problem. But Obama’s plan doesn’t actually address too-big-to-fail at all. It r...

As physical limitations for how media is distributed and consumed decline, the competitive landscape changes fundamentally. In short, new abundances have turned the economics of distribution on its head. For example, “loss-leader strategies” are inverted. (F...














