Our Mission

Our Mission
The mission of the Media and Democracy Coalition is to bring together the nation’s leading public interest communications rights advocates so they can work collaboratively to achieve a media system that is open, accessible and diverse, as well as build a more powerful movement for better media.  

Who we are
MADCo is a membership-based coalition of more than three-dozen of the nation’s leading advocates for communications rights.  Our member organizations work towards a more open, accessible and accountable communications system through policy and legal advocacy, organizing of key constituencies to hold decision-makers accountable, through the operation of media and telecommunications outlets that are community controlled, and through the creation of diverse media content. 

Why we exist
MADCo members recognize that the private interests that control our media system are too powerful for any one public interest group to battle alone.  Telecom companies like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T have an army of lobbyists in Washington D.C. to advance their interests.  Corporate giants like News Corporation and Clear Channel control vast portions of the media, and in turn, control the messages that U.S. residents here about issues that affect their communications rights.  
By working together through the structure of a coalition, MADCo members are more powerful than if each group stood alone.  Each group that is part of MADCo has a unique set of skills, expertise, relationship and resources that, when mobilized in collaboration with their allies that have a completely different set of those same characteristics, can be used to leverage opportunities into policy changes for communications rights. 
Check out Our History and Our Work to learn more, including our most recent accomplishments.