Blogs, online commentators and viral videos have shaped the debate in the current election season. But "e-politics" still faces at least one major obstacle : Internet access.

The FCC announced a public en banc hearing to be held in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Monday, July 21, 2008, on broadband and the digital future.

The FCC announced it will hold a public hearing about broadband and the digital future in Pittsburgh on July 21. Free Press applauds the FCC for continuing to seek public input on key policy questions.

One week after Charter Communications voiced concerns about controversial behavioral targeting company NebuAd, two other Internet service providers appear to be distancing themselves from the company.

A week after Charter Communications backpedaled on plans to implement NebuAds’ controversial behavioral tracking and ad serving platform, another of the vendor’s ISP partners has put on the brakes.

The Public Interest Spectrum Coalition has filed comments with the FCC strongly suggesting that if the D Block plan for public safety spectrum is going to succeed, the agency needs to rethink the nonprofit in charge of the public safety region.

Two senior House Republicans are calling on the FCC to drop a proposal that the winning bidder of a swath of airwaves offers free Internet services to the public as part of the deal.

CNet interviewed Verizon CTO Mark Wegleitner about Fios and acceptable broadband network management.

There are exchanges where you can buy and sell stocks, futures, pork bellies, wine and even pollution allowances. Why not an exchange for the trading of digital bits and bytes ?

Even for an industry awash in bad news, the newspaper business went through one of its most severe retrenchments in recent memory last week, with talk of slashing payrolls, outsourcing printing and selling iconic headquarter buildings.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer is cutting an average of 32 pages per week. The changes will include the elimination of four regular weekly stand-alone sections, including Monday business.

With the double whammy of $4 gas prices and magazine wholesaler-led distribution cuts, magazines are facing steeper-than-usual single-copy sales declines in the first half of 2008.

Fox News has seen its once formidable advantage over CNN erode in this presidential election year, as both CNN and MSNBC have added viewers at far more dramatic rates.

Scratch the surface of all those glittering tributes for Tim Russert and you might find an undercoating of journalistic insecurity.

The advisory committees to Burlington Telecom made the appropriate decision by unanimously recommending that the city-owned cable provider retain Al-Jazeera English in its channel lineup.

Independent, international grassroots journalism is already happening, and it’s exciting, enduring and revolutionary for all parties concerned.