by Cheryl Leanza | Aug 6, 2025 | Blog, Diverse and Accountable Media, Featured, Media Diversity, Open and Affordable Communications
We have heard from many supporters asking for guidance with respect to recent events facing public media. As followers of UCC Media Justice know from our recent advocacy, Congress voted to cancel the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s (CPB) funding in July. CPB...
by Sara Cederberg | Jun 11, 2025 | Blog, Diverse and Accountable Media, Media Diversity, Open and Affordable Communications
Public media has long served as one of the most trusted sources of independent journalism in the United States — providing non-commercial news, educational programming, and local reporting to communities nationwide. Today, that system faces one of the most serious...
by Sara Cederberg | May 19, 2025 | Blog, Diverse and Accountable Media, Media Diversity
On Monday, May 19, the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit overturned the Federal Communications Commission’s rules re-establishing its workforce diversity data publication rules in National Religious Broadcasters v. FCC. In response to this ruling,...
by Cheryl Leanza | Feb 4, 2025 | Blog, Diverse and Accountable Media, Media Diversity
This morning, the Federal Communications Commission appeared in a federal appellate court in New Orleans to defend its decision to adopt and enforce its long-standing but long-dormant workforce data collection rules for the broadcast industry. UCC Media Justice is...
by Cheryl Leanza | Jan 24, 2025 | Blog, Diverse and Accountable Media, Media Diversity
As we said in November: UCC Media Justice will oppose efforts to give more power to large corporations that threaten a true diversity of views. We will stand up against organs of government and large companies that threaten people of color, immigrants, women, trans...
by Sara Cederberg | Feb 22, 2024 | Blog, Diverse and Accountable Media, Media Diversity
As James Baldwin said, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Today, a vote by the Federal Communications Commission took one step closer to facing the reality that employment diversity in media, specifically the...
