by Cheryl Leanza | May 23, 2023 | Blog, Diverse and Accountable Media, Media Concentration, Uncategorized
After months of scrutiny and last-minute brinksmanship, a proposed $8.6 Billion hedge fund takeover of TV company TEGNA was finally sent to the scrap heap. UCC Media Justice had jointly filed against the transaction with Common Cause and also with two unions that are...
by Cheryl Leanza | Mar 16, 2023 | Blog, Communications Justice for Incarcerated Persons, Uncategorized
The Federal Communications Commission starts work today on implementing the new Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act, the product of years of work by UCC Media Justice and its allies. We are excited to roll up our sleeves and help establish the...
by Cheryl Leanza | Mar 9, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
The UCC’s Media Justice Ministry and other advocates responded with alarm—and sadness—when Gigi Sohn, President Biden’s nominee for a seat on the Federal Communications Commission, asked that her nomination be withdrawn after more than 16 months of attacks on her...
by Cheryl Leanza | Feb 24, 2023 | Diverse and Accountable Media, Media Concentration
The United Church of Christ Media Justice Ministry celebrated this afternoon when the Federal Communications Commission issued an order that almost certainly will block a major transaction that would have produced significant media consolidation. UCC Media Justice...
by Cheryl Leanza | Jan 31, 2023 | Blog
President Biden’s nominee for the empty seat at the Federal Communications Commission, Gigi B. Sohn, must be rapidly confirmed by the Senate Commerce Committee and the full Senate. No nominee in recent memory–if ever–has come to the post with so much...
