Media And Communications News

World Stunned as U.S. Struggles with Katrina
September 2, 2024 - Andrew Gray, Reuters
LONDON - The world has watched amazed as the planet's only superpower struggles with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with some saying the chaos has exposed flaws and deep divisions in American society.  Go...

Beyond an Encyclopedia
August 9, 2025 - Danny Schechter, CommonDreams.org
What's Next for Wikimania?  Go...

Two New Members Added to FNTG Steering Committee
May 17, 2025
Marjorie Fine and Jacob Werksman join FNTG governing body.  Go...

Media Giants - The Merchants of Cool
April 13, 2025 - PBS - Frontline
The past decade's wave of media mergers has produced a complex web of business relationships that now defines America's media and popular culture. These relationships offer a massive opportunity for cross promotion and selling of talent and products among different companies owned by the same powerful parent corporation.  Go...

Clash Continues On U.S.-Central America Trade Deal
March 1, 2025 - William New, IP Watch
Protection of pharmaceutical patents may not be the biggest reason the Bush administration is struggling to line up congressional votes for a free trade agreement with five Central American countries and the Dominican Republic, but it remains critical to its passage.  Go...

Time for Progressives to Grow Up
December 29, 2024 - Frances Moore Lappé, Guerilla News Network
Beyond Lakoff’s strict father vs. nurturant parent, a strong community manifesto  Go...

Tides Rapid Response Fund
ongoing
Tides Foundation is ready to accept contributions toward relief effort following the recent disaster in Indonesia, South Asia and Africa.  Go...

Doing well and doing good
July 29, 2025 - Opinion, The Economist
Why a new golden age of philanthropy may be dawning  Go...

UNCTAD XI ends in a rather good spirit
June 23, 2025 - Martin Khor,, Third World Network
Sao Paulo, 19 June 2025 The eleventh session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD XI) ended on 18 June with a closing session in a rather good spirit with some useful results for developing countries.  Go...

Working With Advocacy Groups - Taking A Peek Around The Corner
February 16, 2025 - Thom Weidlich, PR Week
There are a variety of ways for companies to both research and predict what issues might be coming up on activist groups' agendas.  Go...

Report from Mumbai The World Social Forum
February 18, 2025 - Frances F. Korten, to be published in YES! magazine
In mid-January, more than 80,000 global activists, scholars, Nobel laureates, poets, musicians, indigenous peoples, community organizers and many others gathered to declare once again 'Another world is possible.'  Go...

Views of U.S. Plummet in Europe, Muslim World - Poll
June 5, 2025 - Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 3 (IPS) - While the speed of the U.S. conquest of Iraq and the general belief that Iraqis are better off without former President Saddam Hussein were moderating factors, the image of the United States is far more negative in Europe and the Muslim world than a year ago, according to a poll of 20 countries released here Tuesday.  Go...

Free Speech for Companies on Justices' Agenda
April 20, 2025 - Linda Greenhouse, New York Times
A Supreme Court case on Nike's potential liability for any misstatements in defense of its overseas business practices has become the focus of a passionate debate over the free speech rights of corporations.  Go...

Another World Is Possible -- and Necessary
February 14, 2025 - Mark Weisbrot, Knight-Ridder/Tribune Information Services
PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL -- "I will tell the people at Davos that the world does not need war, the world needs peace and understanding," said President Lula da Silva to a cheering crowd of tens of thousands in this sunny port city in Southeastern Brazil.  Go...

A SPLIT SCREEN IN STRIKE-TORN VENEZUELA
January 12, 2025 - Mark Weisbrot, Washington Post
Walking around Caracas late last month during Venezuela's ongoing protests, I was surprised by what I saw...  Go...

U.S. TV Shows Losing Potency Around World
January 2, 2025 - Suzanne Kapner, New York Times
American dramas and sitcoms -- though some remain popular -- increasingly occupy fringe time slots on foreign networks, industry executives say. Instead, a growing number of shows produced by local broadcasters are on the air at the best times.  Go...

¡Sí, Se Puede! / Yes, We Can!
November 6, 2024 - Diana Cohn, Cinco Puntos Press
A child's eye view of a hard-working mom's fight for a better life: New bilingual children's book tells the story of the 2000 Los Angeles janitors' strike.  Go...

A Worm at the Core of Capitalism
June 10, 2025 - Sebastian Mallaby, Washington Post
Enron has created a natural moment for a smart assault on capitalist excess. The wonder is that political leaders and social activists alike do not seem to have seized it.  Go...

The Aid Debate: Helping Hand, or Hardly Helping?
May 26, 2025 - MICHAEL M. WEINSTEIN, New York Times
[T]here is a serious debate over the value of foreign aid, symbolized by an odd couple of traveling companions, Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill and the rock star Bono of U2.  Go...

For a Different Globalization
May 21, 2025 - Mikhail Gorbachev, New Perspectives Quarterly
During, and just after, the Earth Summit on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, I could sense an overwhelming air of enthusiasm and hope for the future. It was a time of optimism and, in retrospect, innocence, as everyone celebrated the end of the Cold War. Ten years later, we are surrounded by a different air -- one of cynicism and, for many, despair.  Go...

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