For the past week, I have been posting information I’ve learned from the National Conference for Media Reform in Memphis (January 12-14). This post is yet another in that series.

One of my favorite parts of the conference was the exhibit hall. There, I met dozens of exhibitors, representatives of organizations dedicated to alternative media and other media issues.

I decided to spend some time interviewing many of these exhibitors. I hope you will be impressed, as I was, by the exhibitors’ enthusiasm and dedication to numerous critically important media issues.

I certainly learned a lot by talking to these people. For those of you who are interested in pursuing media issues further, these videos will give you many links to worthy organizations. Of course, as another a starting point, consider visiting the site of Free Press, where you will find videos of all the major speeches. You will also find numerous suggestions for A) taking action to stop big media, B) preserve equal access to the Internet and C) to promote media reform.

Due to technical limitations of YouTube (most videos may not exceed ten minutes), I have broken my interviews into three separate segments. The first segment involves the following exhibitors:

• See Jane
• First Freedom First
• Real News
• Deep Dish TV
• Project Censored
• In These Times Magazine
• Public News Service

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylgF2d89Raw[/youtube]

In the video immediately below, you can see my interviews with the following exhibitors:

• Social Service Research Council
• Consumers Union
• Free Speech TV
• Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood
• Common Dreams

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhRYQdMdOtc[/youtube]

In this final segment, you’ll hear from the following exhibitors:

• The Well-Connected Project: the Media Tracker
• The Action Coalition for Media Education
• The Media Education Foundation (consumer site here)
• Haymarket Books

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_QvFWZl-Ak[/youtube]