With media ownership rules back on the table at the FCC, there's a lot of interesting writing coming out about about media issues.

One such report is a post-conference paper from the Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development at St. John's University School of Law called "Rethinking the Discourse on Race: A Symposium on How the Lack of Racial Diversity in the Media Affects Social Justice and Policy."

The report examines the lack of diversity in print and broadcast media in front of the camera, behind the camera, and in actual media content. It shows how the media discussion of race frames and shapes public policy at the nexus of race and public policy. It discusses how the stereotypes and distortions arise from structural, economic and cultural issues in media reporting. And perhaps most importantly, it proposes comprehensive regulatory, legal, curricular, and advocacy solutions to the problem of underrepresentation of minorities in the media.

It's worth checking out.