Publications
“It is deeply alarming — and overdue — that U.S. senators are finally confronting the serious threat of consolidated media censorship and quid pro quo interference that has unfolded during this administration, including at a Federal Communications Commission that was created to be independent,” said Dr. Courtney Radsch, director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty at Open Markets.
Read MoreTwo months after bending to a White House demand to suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live! from its network, Nexstar Media Group is asking the Trump administration to approve an illegal $6.2 billion merger that would grant it control over TV stations reaching more than half the country. Dr. Courtney Radsch released a statement condemning the merger.
Read MoreIn this issue, we explore how a new initiative from the Federal Communications Commission will only further consolidate the broadcast media industry.
Read MoreThe Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute joined with 15 leading press freedom groups, civil liberties organizations and labor unions to urge the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) not to move forward with plans to loosen media ownership limits.
Read MoreThe Open Markets Institute condemns the FCC for abusing its regulatory power to dismantle diversity programs and silence press freedom, calling it a dangerous politicization of antitrust authority.
Read MoreReporter Austin Ahlman focuses on chip giant Intel’s ‘secure enclave’ project will take nearly 10 percent of a CHIPS Act manufacturing fund that is already stretched thin.
Read MoreReporter Austin Ahlman explains the battle between station ownership and the few remaining opportunities to reinstate regulatory practices on broadcasting companies by the FCC.
Read MoreIn this issue, we explore the recently passed California Delete Act, aimed at curbing the rampant and invasive collection and sale of personal data by so-called data brokers. Open Markets also filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to put an end to a century-old baseball antitrust exemption.
Read MoreIn this issue, we preview two other antitrust cases against Google, both focused on monopolistic practices related to its Play Store.
Read MoreIn this issue, we look at our conference detailing Facebook’s attacks on the free press, featuring a keynote by Senator Klobuchar. And we explore California’s subsidized manufacture of insulin.
Read MoreIn this issue, we look at how the FCC’s new Democratic majority could act to rein in Big Tech, and at Musk’s misuse of Starlink.
Read MoreSenior legal analyst Daniel Hanley’s opinion piece was cited for his criticism of the Verizon TracFone merger.
Read MoreSandeep Vaheesan, legal director at the Open Markets Institute, writes in Bloomberg Law that President Joe Biden has the chance to make good on his past statements condemning the use of noncompete clauses for American workers by making good appointments to the Federal Trade Commission.
Read MoreDaniel Hanley, policy analyst at the Open Markets Institute, and Beth Brodsky, former Louis Brandeis Law and Political Economy Fellow at the Open Markets Institute, write in Common Dreams showing that the FCC’s push to restructure America’s broadcast communication ownership would be a crushing blow to the already deficient levels of female and minority ownership in the broadcast industry.
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