Free Press
Free Press is a "national nonpartisan organization working to increase public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies which will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong noncommercial sector." Its founder and president is Robert McChesney.
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Select Staff
Accessed January 2011: [1]
- Josh Silver, President and CEO
- Kimberly Longey, Chief Operating Officer
- Craig Aaron, Managing Director
- Joseph Torres, Senior Adviser, Government and External Affairs
- Amy Martyn, Administrative Director
- Timothy Karr, Campaign Director
- Jenn Ettinger, Media Coordinator
- Carrie Cuthbert, Associate Development Director
Projects
DVD: Mobilizing Media Reform (distributed to media activists and created in conjunction with KGHD Productions[1] features interviews with:
- Jonathan Adelstein
- Sherrod Brown, US Representative (D-OH)
- Danielle Chynoweth
- Jeff Cohen
- Michael Copps
- Linda Foley
- Al Franken
- John Freeman
- Amy Goodman
- Maurice Hinchey, US Representative (D-NY)
- Jesse Jackson
- Robert Jensen
- Naomi Klein
- Rahul Mahajan
- Robert McChesney
- Art McGee
- Jeff Perlstein
- Chellie Pingree
- Anthony Riddle
- Danny Schecter
- Abby Scher
- John Stauber
Music by DJ Spooky and Subliminal Kid Productions.
Funding
Mobilizing Media Reform "was made possible with generous support from:
- Arca Foundation
- Ford Foundation
- Glaser Progress Foundation
- Nathan Cummings Foundation
- Otto Haas Charitable Trust
- Overbrook Foundation
- Park Foundation
- Quixote Foundation
- Schumann Center for Media and Democracy
- and many individual donors."
(source: enclosed brochure)
Contact information
40 Main Street
Suite 301
Florence, MA 01062
Phone: (866) 666-1533
Fax: (413) 585-8904
Email: info AT freepress.net
Web: http://www.freepress.net
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