Blogs

Weekly Digest

DNC 2016: Broadband Platform and Leaked E-mails

You’re reading the Benton Foundation’s Weekly Round-up, a recap of the biggest (or most overlooked) telecommunications stories of the week. The round-up is delivered via e-mail each Friday; to get your own copy, subscribe at www.benton.org/user/register

Robbie’s Round-Up for the Week of July 25-29, 2016

Weekly Digest

RNC 2016: GOP Platform, Media Coverage, and Notable Moments

RNC 2016: GOP Platform, Media Coverage, and Notable Moments

You’re reading the Benton Foundation’s Weekly Round-up, a recap of the biggest (or most overlooked) telecommunications stories of the week. The round-up is delivered via e-mail each Friday; to get your own copy, subscribe at www.benton.org/user/register

Robbie’s Round-Up for the Week of July 18-22, 2016

Weekly Digest

An Action Plan to Connect Community Anchor Institutions and Close the Digital Divide


You’re reading the Benton Foundation’s Weekly Round-up, a recap of the biggest (or most overlooked) telecommunications stories of the week. The round-up is delivered via e-mail each Friday; to get your own copy, subscribe at www.benton.org/user/register

Robbie’s Round-Up for the Week of July 11-15, 2016

Op-ed

Platforms Without Media?

Media policy matters.

Party platforms can be sleepy affairs. In recent years, platform writing too often became an exercise of box-checking to “reach out and touch” as many interest groups as possible so everyone felt involved, with an anodyne sentence or two thrown in so these interests felt included. Long on generalities and short on specifics, platforms in recent years were routinely adopted at the party’s convention—and then promptly forgotten.

Weekly Digest

Clinton Puts Forth a Tech Plan. Trump Doesn’t.

You’re reading the Benton Foundation’s Weekly Round-up, a recap of the biggest (or most overlooked) telecommunications stories of the week. The round-up is delivered via e-mail each Friday; to get your own copy, subscribe at www.benton.org/user/register

Robbie’s Round-Up for the Week of June 27-July 1, 2016

Weekly Digest

Livestreaming Shines Bright When House Cameras Go Dark

Livestreaming Shines Bright When House Cameras Go Dark

You’re reading the Benton Foundation’s Weekly Round-up, a recap of the biggest (or most overlooked) telecommunications stories of the week. The round-up is delivered via e-mail each Friday; to get your own copy, subscribe at www.benton.org/user/register

Robbie’s Round-Up for the Week of June 20-24, 2016

Analysis

Network Neutrality: Now What?

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s network neutrality rules. So what does that mean, and what will happen now?

Benton Editorial

Let Me Hear Your Yawp

– Free Speech, Net Neutrality, and Election 2016