The following is collection of articles and editorials published by the Benton Foundation between 1999-2001. Please note that some of the hyperlinks within older publications may have expired over the years, but the publications themselves remain available for historical or research purposes. Topic areas covered are: Broadcasting/Community Media, Education/Ed Tech, Digital Divide, Internet & Ecommerce, Media Ownership, Broadband, Media & Society.

Broadcasting/Community Media

Still Charting the Digital Broadcasting Future: An Update on the State of the DTV Transition (12/19/2001)

"Is Low Power FM Finally finding its Voice?" (04/11/2001)

.coop: The Online Identity for Cooperatives (11/27/2000)

Building Online Communities: Transforming Assumptions Into Success (11/09/2000)

Dishing Up The Public Interest Programming: Noncommercial Networks on DBS (8/29/2000)

Who's Got the Power?: Challenges to Low-Power Radio (7/18/2000)

Connecting Communities: Public Media in the Digital Age (6/27/2000)

Tuning in Digital Audio Broadcasting (5/05/2000)

Arguing Over the Future of TV (4/13/2000)

What's Local About Local Broadcasting? -- Still Not Much (4/4/2000)

Television: Super Tuesday's Big Winner (3/7/2000)

Broadcasting And Equal Employment Opportunities (2/04/2000)

Community & Broadcasting (2/3/2000)

Low-Power Radio: Medium of the Masses (2/2/2000)

Deciding the Future of Television (1/6/2000)

FCC Begins Proceeding on Public Interest Obligations of Digital TV Broadcasters (1/4/2000)

Your Chance to Make Television Better (1/03/2000)

Time Is Right For Digital Television Proceeding (10/28/1999)

Kids and Television (9/2/1999)

Radio for the Next Millennium (5/28/1999)

The Viewers' Bill of Rights (5/14/1999)

Public Service Media in Action -- Seattle (4/30/1999)

Public Interest Obligations in Broadcasting: International Comparisons (4/16/1999)

Cable Television: Sunset Marks A New Day (4/02/1999)

The Future of Television in the Balance: Public Service Media in Action (3/19/1999)

The Future of Television in the Balance (2/18/1999)

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The Digital Divide

Native Networking Trends: Wireless Broadband Networks (09/20/2001)

Reflections on the Rise and Possible Fall of the Federal Community Technology Centers Program (07/25/2001)

A Closer Look at Phoenix's Neighborhood Networks Centers: Myths, Realities and Digital Opportunities (06/07/2001)

Computers For Youth: Why It Makes Sense to Focus Digital Divide Efforts On The Home (02/22/2001)

An Inside Look at the New Digital Divide Database (04/25/2001)

Toward Digital Inclusion... Why Not Broadband (12/2000)

Toward Digital Inclusion... a First Look (11/21/2000)

Politics and the Digital Divide, Part 2: Governor Bush, The Republicans and the "Digital Opportunity" (11/03/2000)

Region's New Economy Can't Exclude the Blind and Visually Impaired (9/25/2000)

Beyond Access: Understanding the Digital Divide (5/19/2000)

From UUNet to UnionNet: Collective Bargaining and the Digital Divide (2/03/2000)

Politics and the Digital Divide, Part 1: Vice President Gore and the Democrats (9/12/2000)

Content and the Digital Divide: What Do People Want? (8/8/2000)

The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in Bridging the Digital Divide (6/13/2000)

Nothing is What it Seems in Indian Country: The New Lifeline Proposal for Tribal Lands (5/11/2000)

The Digital Divide and the US Hispanic Population (8/06/1999)

Four Directions to Making the Internet Indian (5/2/2000)

The Role of the Arts in Bridging the Digital Divide (4/28/2000)

The Library Connection @ Manassas Mall Program (4/6/2000)

Conference Board Strategic Partnership Report (3/14/2000)

Access and Accessibility (3/10/2000)

Universal Service Update (2/29/2000)

The 2001 Agenda (2/08/2000)

The Digital Divide: Evolving Awareness and Evolving Solutions (1/31/2000)

Is There a Problem Here? (1/11/2000)

Demand Aggregation and the Digital Divide (12/09/1999)

Resolving the Digital Divide (11/12/1999)

Native Americans and the Digital Divide (10/14/1999)

Building Better Nets (7/19/1999)

The Digital Divide (7/08/1999)

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Education/Edtech

"No Child Left Behind" and the Bottom Line: The Case of Edtech Policy (03/14/2001)

Education Technology and the Presidential Race, Part 1: George W. Bush's Edtech Proposals (9/5/2000)

Part 2: Al Gore's Edtech Proposals (10/10/2000)

Student Free Speech Rights on the Internet and the Ghosts of Columbine (4/20/2000)

WISH TV: A Wish Come True for Schools and Students? (8/1/2000)

E-Rate Activities in the Beltway (7/6/2000)

Commercialism in Schools: New Technologies, Old Debates (6/6/2000)

The E-Rate in America -- Is it Working? (3/26/2000)

Technology Professional Development for Teachers (9/30/1999)

Education Technology: Beyond the E-Rate (6/10/1999)

E-Rate: Don't Let the Flame Expire (5/24/1999)

E-Rate: Closing the Digital Divide (3/5/1999)

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Internet/Ecommerce

When a Picture Is Worth a Thousand Secrets:
The Debate Over Online Steganography (10/31/2001)

Peer to Peer Opportunities:
Keeping an Open Mind on File-Sharing Networks
(10/25/2001)

Internet Top-Level Domains: Seizing Opportunities for Nonprofits (05/02/2001)

The DOT Campaign: Making ".us" work for all of US (10/24/2000)

Searching for the Difference - Gore v. Bush on High Tech Policy (9/19/2000)

E-commerce and Fair Information Practices for Nonprofit Organizations (8/15/2000)

Nonprofits and Electronic Commerce (6/20/2000)

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Media Ownership

Opposition to AOL/Time Warner Merger Grows (4/26/2000)

The Trib Eats the Times, But Who Cares? (3/28/2000)

Vodafone Wins Mannesmann (2/23/2000)

AOL Swallows Time Warner (1/25/2000)

Mergers & the Public Interest (7/21/1999)

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Broadband

Networked Technologies and the Internet: A Brief Historical Perspective (8/26/02)

Opposition to AOL/Time Warner Merger Grows (4/26/2000)

AOL, Time Warner And The Open Access Landscape (3/21/2000)

Broadband and the AOL/Time Warner Merger (1/18/2000)

Speed Trap: Consumers and High-Speed Bandwidth (2/17/2000)

Broadband's Potential (10/28/1999)

Broadband and the Future of the Internet (8/20/1999)

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Media & Society

Arizona "Ahead of Its Time" In Online Voting? (3/30/2000)

Democracy in the Digital Age (5/18/2000)

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