The New Public Square (Ford Foundation)

THE NEW PUBLIC SQUARE
[SOURCE: Ford Foundation]
As the media sector reinvents itself, there are real questions about how citizens learn about the issues affecting their lives, make choices, and take part in the governance of a continuously changing media environment where enormous sums of money and power are at stake. Over the past five years, the Ford Foundation has renewed its longstanding commitment to the media field. Its objective is to ensure that diverse voices are heard and that citizens have access to media that enrich the way we practice democracy. See URL below for articles on 1) ownership and access, 2) public media, 3) journalism, 4) diversity, 5) universal broadband and more.
http://www.fordfound.org/impact/fordreports/publicsquare