Mac is back. Read a message from Executive Director Malkia Cyril as she prepares to return from her 5-month sabbatical.  Also, our donation drive is underway; please give what you can, together we can continue to create a better future for our communities and our country!

January 18th was a good day - CMJ, thousands  of websites and millions of you took a stand against Internet censorship.  But it's not over!  Today is a new day and we have more work to do.  Please join us and other members of the Media Action Grassroots Network in letting members of Congress know we say NO to #PIPA and #SOPA.

Check out Pew Research Center's annual report on the state of journalism.  It includes an interactive database of companies that own the news properties in the United States.  Despite criticisms that mainstream media often features stories that do not reflect the interests and concerns of individuals and communities, it still remains the biggest source of trusted information for the general public.

Our partners Reel Grrls empower and cultivate the voice and leadership of girls from diverse communities through media production. Generation of Consolidation is a collection of short films created by young women about Media Justice, Net Neutrality, Internet Freedom, Mobile Justice and Low Power FM Radio.  Purchase this inspiring DVD today.

Meet Alison, aka @handsoffmymedia, she's CMJ's communications trainer extraordinaire. She creates and edits our curricula and tools, she trains spokespeople for the social justice movement, she's multilingual, she's a poet, blogger, activist, and more. Don't you want to request her expertise in strategic and high impact communications? Of course you do.