Campaign Cash

The Media Consortium is proud to partner with the We the People Campaign for Campaign Cash, a collaborative editorial effort to expose the influence of corporate money on the political process. To read more stories from this series, follow #CampaignCash on Twitter or visit CampaignCash.org. To see coverage from last year’s Campaign Cash collaboration, click here.

Welcome to the Media Consortium!

The Media Consortium is a network of the country’s leading independent journalism organizations. We support smart, powerful and passionate journalism that redefines American political and cultural debate. The Media Consortium is creating a solid cooperative infrastructure that will serve a 21st-century audience and offer a sustainable future for independent media. Millions of Americans are looking for honest, fair, and accurate journalism-We’re finding new ways to reach them. Our strategy has three focal points: Making Connections, Building Infrastructure, and Amplifying Our Voice.

Making Connections

Through meetings and collaboratively built projects, The Media Consortium enables our members to build relationships, strategize, and constructively work together to reinvent the independent media sphere.

Building Infrastructure

We’re analyzing who reads, watches and listens to our members’ work so that we can reach millions more Americans looking for honest journalism. We’re making joint investments in training, technology-sharing, advertising, promotions and learning how to communicate effectively with one another.

Amplifying Our Voice

It’s time to do together what we can not do alone. The Media Consortium seeks to fulfill the role of media in a democracy. We’re strengthening a vibrant, fact-based community of independent journalism producers that educate, inform and engage citizens to create the world to which we all aspire.

RSS Consortium Report

  • November Update: Media for the 99%
    Thanks to all of you who came to Oakland for our 2011 annual meeting, Harnessing our Collective Power. In just 18 hours, we harnessed our power, collectively deciding to put our resources into getting out the message of the Occupy movement during the 2012 election year. Our 2012 campaign, Media f...
  • Open to the Public: Meet the Storytelling Pioneers of Visual Journalism
    Comics journalist Dan Archer joins editors from Mother Jones, Colorlines and Truthout to demonstrate tools and reveal new trends in visual journalism. If you live in the Bay Area, please join The Media Consortium for a panel discussion on the future of visual journalism on October 13. From data visu...
  • The New Landscape in Journalism: A Statement from The Media Consortium
    The Media Consortium, a national network of independent media outlets, represents the new landscape in journalism that a recent Pew Report attempts to describe. If the twentieth century was defined largely by corporate media, the twenty-first century media sector that our Consortium represents compr...
  • The Wavelength: Court To FCC: Do Your Freakin’ Job! Plus: How the NewsCorps Scandal Impacts U.S. Media
    Welcome to the final edition of The Wavelength, a bi-weekly roundup of news and analysis focused on media policy. Stay tuned for more reporting on the ongoing impact of media policy from members of The Media Consortium. By Eric K. Arnold, Media Consortium Blogger Just when it seemed that the wave ...
  • The Wavelength: FCC Decries Lack of Media Diversity, Stymies Low Power TV
    by Eric K. Arnold, Media Consortium blogger Local coverage and diversity are in short supply in today’s media landscape–especially when it comes to broadcast and cable TV. But there is hope. In markets like the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, Low Power TV (LPTV) has emerged as a ...
  • The Wavelength: WikiLeaks Isn’t Sexy Enough for U.S. Media
    By Eric K. Arnold, Media Consortium Blogger While mainstream media news cycles have been dominated by political sex scandals, important global stories have gone under-reported. According to AlterNet’s Rania Khalek, many of these stories were broken by WikiLeaks. Khalek spotlights five key revelati...
  • The Wavelength: Your So-Called Private Life
    by Eric K. Arnold, Media Consortium blogger Smart phones are hip, trendy, and loaded with user-friendly apps. But these devices also collect and store your personal information, leaving huge security gaps. The prevalence of spyware in mobile technology and  social networking sites has huge implica...
  • The Wavelength: Attack of the Media Mega-Mergers! Skyprosoft, AT&T-Mobile and more
    by Eric Arnold, Media Consortium blogger Another day, another media mega-merger. The latest? Microsoft is buying Skype, the Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion. So exactly what does the Skyprosoft deal mean for consumers? That’s the eight-point-five billion-dollar question. Public Ne...
  • Weekly Mulch: House Republicans Push for Renewed Offshore Drilling
    by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Ed. note: This is the final edition of the Mulch. To keep up with the best environmental coverage the progressive media has to offer, follow The Media Consortium on Twitter or connect with us on Facebook. House Republicans passed a bill yesterday afternoon...
  • Weekly Diaspora: What Homeland Security Looks Like After Bin Laden’s Death
    by Catherine A. Traywick, Media Consortium blogger Nearly a decade ago, America’s War on Terror began as a manhunt for Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But over the next nine years, that anti-terrorism effort evolved into a multi-faceted crusade: b...

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