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Jessica J. González Named Co-CEO of Free Press and Free Press Action
Jessica J. González assumed the role of co-CEO of Free Press and Free Press Action. She will be joining Co-CEO Craig Aaron, who has served as the organizations’ leader since 2011. For the past three years, Jessica has served as the organizations’ vice president of strategy and senior counsel. Before joining Free Press, Jessica was the executive vice president and general counsel at the National Hispanic Media Coalition.
Free Press Slams FCC Attempt to Undermine Court Victory Restoring Media-Ownership Limits (Free Press)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 11/07/2019 - 15:54Analysis: Silver Linings to Today's Net Neutrality Court Loss (Free Press)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 10/01/2019 - 16:43
The Truth About the Digital Divide
At the outset of their recent Op-Ed, Blair Levin and Larry Downes reject federal policymakers’ singular focus on promoting rural broadband deployment, arguing that the digital divide is not merely a question of rural access. In fact, they rightly note that there are more disconnected folks in urban areas than in rural ones. Millions of disconnected people live where broadband is already deployed, but still don’t subscribe to it.
FCC Chairman Pai Circulates Order in Rush to Gain Approval of the Harmful T-Mobile/Sprint Merger (Free Press)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 08/14/2019 - 15:10Free Press Welcomes Comcast's Expansion of Its Internet Essentials Program to More Poor Households (Free Press)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 08/07/2019 - 13:01Trump FCC Votes to Radically Redefine Local Franchise Agreements and Undermine Community Needs (Free Press)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 16:22FCC Takes Important First Step to Improve Broadband-Deployment Maps While Maintaining Public Access to Underlying Data (Free Press)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 08/01/2019 - 12:32
Free Press Cautiously Optimistic on Pai's Proposed Reforms to Broadband Data and Maps
On July 11, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai released a draft proposal to improve the FCC’s broadband-deployment data-collection rules. These revisions are intended to increase the granularity and precision of the National Broadband Map, a semiannual data-collection effort that began at the National Telecommunications Information Agency (NTIA) in 2010. The full FCC will vote on Chairman Pai’s proposal at its Aug.