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The FCC official homepage, with news background and other information about regulatory agencys activities and positions.

Breaking news along with features including Money Guides and questions and answers. Audio and video clips and online programmes.

Website of the Federal Reserve, with news, speeches and testimony and other resources.

News, information, analysis, commentaries and strategies about markets and finance and investments from Money online magazine

Packages of news, analysis and commentaries from The Financial Times.

Analysis uses media coverage of Time-Warner merger to illustrate how consolidation of corporate ownership limits and distorts news coverage. Christopher Pieper and Kristen Hughes at U. Texas at Austin Graduate School of Journalism. (From The Real News Pages.)

Search for existing patents and other information about intellectual property.

Article that criticizes the influence of industry money and lack of public interest considerations in the adoption of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. (From In These Times.)

Explanation from investment point of view of how mergers between offline and online media companies are logical.

A look back at the early days of corporate control and consolidation of media ownership. A compilation of three late 1960s articles warning about the trend. From Atlantic Monthly archives.

News, current data and other information from official website of NYSE

Clearing house of organizations concerned with sustainable development and other issues. News, reports and in-depth information, with alternative perspectives.

Economic and demographic data and analysis.

News and information about operations, policies, publications, appeals and how to help. Includes special reports, questions and answers and video.

Public pages of well known subscription firm covering world market news and data.