Mega Media

This report attempts to find an honest and different way to understand the future of news across media. Its assesment begins in the marketplace and follows a maze of business practices back to the newsroom - not to celebrate the economic trends driving the news, but to identify the true leverage points shaping this brave new digital-information world.

Nancy Hicks Maynard is president of Maynard Partners Inc., consulting company. She has spent more than 30 years in the news business. Maynard is the former co-owner and publisher of "The Oakland Tribune." She has covered domestic policy for "The New York Times"in New York and Washington and education for the" New York Post." She has served as senior vice president of The Freedom Forum and as chair of its Media Studies Center. Maynard is a graduate of Long Island University and Stanford Law School and serves on the boards of numerous organizations. Her study of "Mega Media" received support from The Freedom Forum.