Hot Buttons | Work on the FCC Diversity Committee | 
Other Advocacy Issues | Surveys and Reports | Public Policy Links 

As a national organization, AWRT takes positions on policy issues of importance to women. Over the past several years, AWRT has worked hard to promote ownership opportunities for women in the communications industry and to support efforts to make equal employment opportunity rules for women in communications effective and efficient. We encourage you to support the advancement of women in the communications industry.  Learn about our advocacy platform.

What's Happening on the Hill?
Congressional Women Rally for Fair Pay

Hot Buttons: The quarterly look at the "hot buttons" from our Governance & Advocacy Committee Chair. 

• Q2 2008: The FCC Unplugged

• Q1 2008: New Year, Old Issues

• Q4 2007: Taking Ownership

• Q3 2007: DTV Transition + 2008 Elections = A Summer of Legislation

• Q2 2007: FCC Chair & Commissioners Participate in AWRT Leadership Summit

• Q4 2006: Supporting Innovation: Commissioner Robert McDowell

• Q3 2006: Media's Positive Impact: A Conversation with FCC Commissioner Tate

• Q1 2006: FCC Remains Quiet While Senate is Active

• Q4 2005: Tips for Effective Lobbying 

• Q3 2005: FCC Media Bureau Chief Donna Gregg Balances Big Issues in New Post

• Q2 2005: An FCC in Transition

• Q1 2005: Indecency

Work on the FCC Diversity Committee
To learn more about AWRT's work on the FCC Diversity Committee, please download:

• AWRT to Participate in July 2008 En Banc Hearing
• AWRT's Maria Efantis Brennan to Continue Her Service on FCC Advisory Committee on Diversity in the Digital Age
• History of FCC Diversity Initiatives 
• Achievements of FCC Diversity Committee
• FCC Diversity Committee First Finding of the Career Advancement Subcommittee

Other Advocacy Issues
To learn more about AWRT's work on other issues important to women in electronic media, please download:

• AWRT's Comments on the FCC's Designated Entity Program  
• AWRT's Comments on Reserve Prices or Minimum Opening Bids and Other Auction Procedures

Survey & Reports- To read some of the current statistics on women and minorities in electronic media, please download:

• Annenberg Public Policy Center: The Glass Ceiling Persists:  Annual Report on Women Leaders in Communication Companies

• Free Press: Off the Dial: How Media Consolidation Diminishes Diversity on the Radio

• Free Press: Out of the Picture: Minority & Female TV Station Ownership in the United States

• Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports:  2008 Racial & Gender Report Card of the Associated Press Sports Editors

• MIWs:  Annual Sales Manager Gender Analysis Study

• RTNDA/Hofstra: Women and Journalists of Color in Local Broadcast News

Public Policy Links

Interested in finding out more information about advocacy? The list below will help get you started!

Contact the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20554
888-225-5322
Chairman Kevin J. Martin: KJMWEB@fcc.gov
Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein: Jonathan.Adelstein@fcc.gov
Commissioner Michael J. Copps: Michael.Copps@fcc.gov
Commissioner Robert McDowell: Robert.McDowell@fcc.gov
Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate: dtaylortateweb@fcc.gov

Contact the White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
NW Washington, D.C. 20502
202-456-1111
President George W. Bush: president@whitehouse.gov
Vice President Richard Cheney: vice.president@whitehouse.gov 

Contact the United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
202-224-3121
To e-mail your Congressperson, visit http://www.house.gov/, and scroll to bottom of page and click on ‘Write your Rep’.

Contact the United States Senate
Washington, DC 20515
To e-mail your Senator, go to http://www.senate.gov and click on “List Senators by State’. Each Senator’s site will list the appropriate methods for constituent contact.

Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet (information on passed and pending legislation in Congress) http://thomas.loc.gov/