In a series of meetings in late December 2008, Coalition members and allies urged the Obama FCC transition team to consider an aggressive list of changes that would make the agency more accountable to the public, and would advance public interest media policies.

On this page, you can review all of the documents collected as part of this process.

Meeting Minutes

December 16, 2008 In-Person Meeting with Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach minutes [0]

December 22, 2008 Conference call with Kevin Werbach [0]

Coalition Member and Allies FCC Transition Briefing Documents

Key Points on Digital Access, Gene Kimmelman, Consumers Union [0]

Spectrum Policy: Recommendations for the FCC, Michael Calabrese, New America Foundation [0]

Network Neutrality Recommendations for the FCC, Sascha Meinrath & Michael Calabrese, New America Foundation [0]

Impact of the FCC's Selective Data Collection on Radio Regulation, Michael Bracy & Kristin Thomson, Future of Music Coalition [0] 

MAP White Paper Proposal on FCC Spectrum Policy Reform, Harold Feld, Media Access Project [0]

Principles and Policies for an Open Broadband Future, Public Knowledge [0]

The Need for Enhanced FCC Commitment to Diversity, National Hispanic Media Coalition [0]

Improving Structures and Processes at the FCC, Angela Campbell, Institutute for Public Representation [0]

Clarifying the Jurisdiction of the FCC, Media Access Project [0]

Media and Democracy in America Today: A Reform Plan for a New Administration, Common Cause [0]

Letter to The Obama FCC Review Team, Helen Soule, Alliance for Community Media [0]

Community Media's Future, Alliance for Community Media [0]

Public Interest Obligations of Broadcasters, Benton Foundation [0]

Charting the Digital Broadcasting Future, Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obigations of Digital Broadcasters [0]

Citizen's Guide to Public Interest Obligations of Digital Broadcasters, Benton Foundation [0]

Low Power FM Recommendations for the FCC Under President Barack Obama, Shawn Campbell, Chicago Indendent Radio Project & Prometheus Radio Project [0]

The Digital Arts Service Corps Can Build a Public Online Sphere, Helen De Michiel, National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture [0] 

Urbana-Champaign Input to Obama's FCC Transition Team, Danielle Chynoweth, Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center [1]

Change and the FCC, Reclaim the Media [1]

Comments of the Mid-Atlantic Community Papers Association to President-Elect Obama FCC Transition Co-Leaders [1]

Open Note to the FCC Transition Team, Michael Maranda, Catalytic Communities & Chicago Digital Access Alliance [2]

Ten Principles of Digital Excellence, Michael Maranda, [3]Catalytic Communities & Chicago Digital Access Alliance [4]

Statement to the Obama FCC Transition Team, Bruce Fife, Oregon Alliance to Reform Media [4]

Native Public Media Policy Priorities, Loris Taylor, Native Public Media [4]

Six Steps Toward a Stronger, More Transparent, More Accountable FCC in the Obama Era, Joe Karaganis, Social Science Research Council [5]