The FCC invited Lear Center director Martin Kaplan -- along with his Local News Archive colleagues Kenneth Goldstein and Matthew Hale -- to conduct peer reviews of two research studies that the FCC commissioned.

Their peer review of the study "The Impact of Ownership Structure on Television Stations' News And Public Affairs Programming" can be found here.

Their peer review of the study "The Effect of Cross-Ownership on the Local Content and Political Slant of Local Television News" can be found here.

The full set of FCC research studies and peer reviews of them can be found here.