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Seminar

Media Consolidation: a Teach-In

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  • Craig Aaron, Speaker
  • Jax Deluca, Speaker
  • Matt Stoller, Speaker
New partner updated green and blue flyer for Media Consolidation: a Teach-In December 17, 2025 | 10-11:30 am PT | Online

Does the language of mergers and corporate media consolidation leave you confused or unsure of how it may impact you and what you can do about it? 

To understand more, join this free community teach-in presented by IDA, Future Film Coalition, and Art House Convergence. Together with a coalition of partners representing a breadth of independent voices, both fiction and nonfiction, we'll break down the anatomy of mergers, how and when we are likely to be able to give public input on the current Warner Brothers Discovery proposed merger, how to most effectively make that public comment, and advocacy strategies that 501(c)(3) organizations can safely take without jeopardizing their status in defense of their mission and their constituents. We'll learn from leading experts from the American Economic Liberties Project and Free Press as we build collective action coalitions across the industry to protect independent media.

This virtual event will be recorded. 

Access:
If you have any access needs that you would like to share with us, please email access@documentary.org at least two weeks prior to the event. We will do our best to accommodate. 

Code of Conduct
All participants agree to read and approve the IDA Events Code of Conduct here.

Event Participants

    Headshot of Craig Aaron, a man with brown hair, glasses and a beard outside of the Federal Communications Commission

    Craig Aaron

    Craig Aaron has led Free Press and Free Press Action since 2011. For nearly two decades, he has been a leader in major campaigns to safeguard Net Neutrality, stop media consolidation, oppose unchecked surveillance, defend public media and sustain quality journalism. He edits and writes for the biweekly newsletter Pressing Issues. 

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    Jax Deluca

    Jax Deluca is a cultural strategist with over two decades of leadership across public service and nonprofit arts organizations. Currently, she is the interim director for the Future Film Coalition, a newly formed national alliance dedicated to safeguarding and strengthening the independent film and media sector in the United States. In her previous role as the Director of Film & Media Arts at the National Endowment for the Arts (2016–2025), she oversaw a federal funding portfolio, spearheaded national initiatives, such as the Independent Media Arts Group (IMAG) in partnership with Sundance Institute and BAVC Media, and produced research offering critical insights into creative technology practices, field-wide infrastructure needs, and high-level challenges facing the indie film sector. She is a recipient of a Documentary Film in the Public Interest Fellowship at The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (2025-2026).

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    Matt Stoller

    Matt Stoller is the Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project. He is the author of the Simon and Schuster book Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy, which Business Insider called “one of the year’s best books on how to rethink capitalism and improve the economy.” Stoller is a former policy advisor to the Senate Budget Committee. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Fast Company, Foreign Policy, the Guardian, Vice, The American Conservative, and the Baffler. Stoller writes the monopoly-focused newsletter Big with tens of thousands of subscribers.