The Media Consortium's Eric Arnold rounds up: the latest updates on the AT&T/T-Mobil deal; the lawsuit by the unpaid bloggers against the Huffington Post; expansion of broadband in rural America; and the story of an Oakland community's opposition to the installation of a powerful cellular antenna close to two schools. more>

AT&T's decision to charge extra fees to customers – capping customers' Internet usage – will impact ethnic, community and independent media hard. more>

Muslims communities in America received the death of Osama bin Laden with a sense of relief and in the hope that it will turn a new page in U.S. relations with Muslims at home and overseas. more>

Abu Taher, editor of The Weekly Bangla Patrika, a New York-based Bengali language newspaper. more>

AT&T's recently announced acquisition of T-Mobile will significantly impact ethnic communities around the United States, especially low-income populations that could be confronted by reduced service access and higher costs. more>

Tomasz Deptula, columnist and business/web editor at Nowy Dziennik-Polish Daily News more>

Jordan Moss, editor of the Norwood News more>

Jane Eisner, Editor, The Daily Jewish Forward  more>

HyunSang Lee, Editor-in-Chief, The Korea Daily more>

Sujeet Rajan, Editor, The Indian Express more>

Teresa Cabrero, Managing Director, Diario de México USA more>

Elinor Tatum, Publisher and Editor in Chief, Amsterdam News more>

Javier Castaño, Founder and Director, QueensLatino.com more>

While Egyptian Americans watch the events in their homeland with anxiety, fear and hope for a better tomorrow, the Internet black out imposed by President Hosni Mubarak's government, has made it increasingly difficult to reach families and friends back home. more>

Leah Moses, Managing Editor, Russkaya Reklama more>

Mohsin Zaheer, Journalist & Editor, Sada-e-Pakistan more>

Pakistani community activists have a dim view of the prospects for the passage or need for new legislation to secure TPS when existing law already defines eligibility criteria, which they feel Pakistan's situation fulfills.  more>

NYCMA spoke with Garry Pierre-Pierre, publisher of the Haitian Times. more>

Joe Wei, National Desk Editor, World Journal shares his thoughts about the role of the ethnic media in US. more>

As Germans who currently live in the U.S., it is especially shocking for us to learn that young people here who consider the U.S. their only home live in constant fear of deportation and separation from their families and friends. more>

Election results have increased fears within New York's immigrant communities that the Republican-controlled House of Representatives will block all efforts to bring comprehensive immigration reform over the next two years. Senior journalists from diverse ethnic communities also fear congressional gridlock or limited progress on key national issues. more>

In the wake of recent terrorist and criminal usage, Senator Schumer proposes that proper identification be required and recorded for the purchase of a prepaid cell phone. If this legislation passes, undocumented immigrants will lose a crucial means of communication, and all of us will lose the right to make anonymous calls. more>

The gains celebrated by Bloomberg and Klein – and carefully promoted by the Department of Education press office – are challenged by outcomes on national achievement tests, largely regarded by academics and researchers as the "gold standard" of educational assessment.  more>

A lack of discussion about ethnic media at the national event in Chicago last month drew a line between the long overlooked media sector and the true meaning of "journalists of color." more>

Many of them are not even U.S. voters, but they chase presidential candidates across the state to get information for their readers. more>