Media Reform Conference Sessions Now Online

By Trish Nelson, Rapid Response
 
You can listen to about 100 panel discussions from the National Conference on Media Reform by clicking the link below.  It's quick and easy; you don't have to wait on the audios.  It's an incredibly convenient way to learn TONS about the fight to save what's left of our media while you're doing something else.
 
There are two with an Iowa angle:  Iowa State Senator Wayne Ford is on the Making Media Reform a Campaign Issue panel and I was on a panel representing IBLTV, How to Challenge a Broadcast License.
 
http://www.freepress.net/conference/=full_schedule07  When you get to this page, scroll down to the day and time to select a panel.
 
Making Media Reform a Campaign Issue (Saturday, 2:30)

Moderator: John Nichols, Free Press
Chellie Pingree, Common Cause
Wayne Ford, Iowa Brown and Black Forum
Adam Green, MoveOn.org Civic Action
Matt Stoller, MyDD.com
 
Media and Elections (Friday, 1:15)

Moderator: Paul Waldman, Media Matters for America 
Cornell Belcher, Brilliant Corners Research and Strategies
Steven F. Freeman, Election Integrity
 
State Battlegrounds in Media Reform (Friday, 1:15)

Moderator: Lauren-Glenn Davitian, CCTV Center for Media & Democracy
Beth McConnell, Penn PIRG
Nathan Newman, Progressive States
Inez Gonzalez, National Hispanic Media Coalition
Joe Van Eaton, Miller & Van Eaton
 
Get Radio: What You Need to Know To Start Your Own Station
(Saturday, 4:30)
 
Pete Tridish, Prometheus Radio Project
Mike Shay, WRYY-LP
Sakura Saunders, KDRT-LP
 
How to Challenge a Broadcast License  (Saturday, 2:30)

Marvin Ammori, Georgetown University Institute for Public Representation
Steve Macek, Chicago Media Action
Leslie Ruiz, Youth Media Council 
Mitchell Szczpanczyk, Chicago Media Action
Trish Nelson, Iowans for Better Local TV