National Conference for Media Reform

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The National Conference for Media Reform is a conference held every one to two years in the United States to connect thousands of media reformers, and present ideas and strategies for better news media.

The conference is for everyone who wants to be involved in efforts to reform the media of the United States. Attendees include but are not limited to: activists, students, policymakers, journalists, scholars, artists, and concerned citizens. The conference is sponsored and held by Free Press and the Free Press Action Fund.

The first ever National Conference for Media Reform was held in 2003 in Madison, Wisconsin, and was attended by approximately 1,700 people. ^[1] Other conferences were held May 13-15th, 2005 in St. Louis, Missouri, and January 2007 in Memphis, Tennessee.

The 2008 conference was held at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from June 6-8.^[2] The conference was organized around five themes, including Media Policy; Media Reform Activism and Movement Building; Journalism and Independent Media; Civil Rights-Social Justice and Media; and Media and Democracy: The Next Frontier.

"Over three days, the conference will feature 60 fascinating panel discussions and workshops plus inspiring speeches, multimedia presentations, film screenings, roundtable meetings with policymakers, regional caucuses for you to meet media reformers from your home state, and dozens of receptions and parties. We will focus on broadening the media reform movement, envisioning the future of our media system, harnessing new technology for change, and achieving concrete policy victories through sustainable organizing."[1]