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On July 8, Defense Secretary Robert Gates defended his decision to require military officials to receive Pentagon clearance for interviews and other media contacts. read more

Capitol Police are investigating a series of official-looking e-mails that falsely announced the deaths of four senators this week. read more

Cable operators and entertainment companies are talking about selling cheaper cable TV packages with fewer channels to attract and keep customers trying to save money in a weak economy. read more

The Federal Communications Commission will hold an Open Meeting on Thursday, July 15, 2010. Here's the agenda. read more

House Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA), Communications Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher (D-VA), Ranking Member Joe Barton (R-TX) and Communications Subcommittee Ranking Member Cliff Stearns (R-FL) released information about the top recipients of high-cost subsidy dollars from the federal Universal Service Fund. read more

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) named Nina Totenberg, NPR's award-winning legal affairs correspondent, the recipient of the 2010 Edward R. Murrow Award. read more

Lonna Thompson, interim CEO and general counsel of the Association of Public Television Stations, met with Federal Communications Commission officials July 7 to remind them of the value of leaving spectrum in the hands of the noncommercial stations she represents. read more

Who supports city-owned fiber networks? The US government. read more

Comcast has committed to a $20 million capital fund to help minority entrepreneurs and says it will offer 10 independent networks in the first eight years of a merged Comcast/NBCU, upping the ante from the six independently owned channels over three years in its initial public interest pledge. read more

The departed cash flow from the lines it spun off and sold to Frontier may leave Verizon hurting for operating income in its wireline segment. read more

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced important new rules and resources to strengthen the privacy of health information and to help all Americans understand their rights and the resources available to safeguard their personal health data. read more

People who trade email with their doctors do a little better on measures of two chronic diseases than people who don't email, and they're likelier to get recommended tests, according to a study of Kaiser patients in Southern California. read more

Some doctors see Facebook as an educational and, perhaps just as important, marketing tool. But few doctors have embraced social media enthusiastically. read more

There are about 750 days to go before the London 2012 games, but Cisco wants a rerun on NBC for online content and sponsorship plans. read more

Is it a trend? A number of writers have shot down their blogs and replaced them with subscription-only email newsletters. read more

In his annual speech to parliament, Italy's telecommunications regulator Corrado Calabro urged competing telecommunications providers to unite under one nationwide plan with clear rules and government guidance. read more

This headline is presented in partnership with:To create the environment for media literacy to flourish in Africa, the Youth Media & Communication Initiative (YMCI), British Council, Nigeria, and the National Film & Video Censors Board (NFVCB), three organizations whose activities focus on empowering children and youth and advancing the benefits of information and communication technologies, recently came together to plan the 1st Africa Media Literacy Conference scheduled to hold July 30 & 31, 2008, in Abuja, Nigeria's capital city. read more

This headline is presented in partnership with:An under-used Victorian railway station in Spalding, Lincolnshire, has been turned into a vital new community complex, comprising a radio studio and help and advice center. read more

This headline is presented in partnership with:Journalism is having a tough enough time as it is without the kick in the gut the profession sustained when UNC-TV management rolled over and complied with a subpoena issued by a state Senate judiciary panel. The move potentially killed serious journalism for North Carolina public television and public radio. read more

This headline is presented in partnership with:Last week the New York Times withdrew from its hyperlocal news experiment in New Jersey. The title handed over the audience for its New Jersey branch of the Local to established, independent blog network Baristanet.com, carefully reminding onlookers that this had been an experiment, a test of what the Times could do at district level. read more