Hi panelists, host and organizer for the net neutrality event.
Please find below an invitation with links to your biographical details. Let me know directly if it’s OK or if there is a URL you’d prefer to use
with your background.
We’ve also added a panelist: Gautham Nagesh from the Wall Street Journal’s D.C. bureau, who covers net neutrality.
With six panelists, we’ll keep the introductions of you each very short so that we can focus on questions from the moderator (me) and from the audience.
At the risk of overly reducing the issue, I’ll simply say that, of those interested parties in the proceeding, Free Press supports reclassification, Free State
Foundation is against net neutrality rules, and MMTC supports net neutrality rules without reclassification. And I’ll note that Daniel advises Chmn. Wheeler
on net neutrality and other wireline regulatory issues while Lucy is a lawyer and expert on free speech and the press. If I’ve gotten any of that wrong, please
email me directly.
Why media should care about net neutrality
A Society of Professional Journalists panel,
co-sponsored by Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
With an introduction by Ellen Shearer, director of the Medill Washington Program
http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/experience/people/faculty/ellen-shearer.html
Government, nonprofit and media representatives discuss the importance of net neutrality to journalists, how
accurately media have covered the issue and whether it’s related to the First Amendment or free speech.
6-8 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014
panel begins at 6:30 p.m.
Medill Washington Program
1325 G St. NW, Room 730
Washington, DC
Panelists:
Daniel Alvarez, legal adviser on issues including wireline telecommunications to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler
http://www.fcc.gov/leadership/tom-wheeler-staff
Lucy Dalglish, dean and a professor of the University of Maryland Merrill College of Journalism
http://merrill.umd.edu/directory/lucy-dalglish
Randolph May, president of the Free State Foundation
http://www.freestatefoundation.org/seniorfellowsandstaff.html
Gautham Nagesh, Wall Street Journal FCC and technology reporter
http://topics.wsj.com/person/A/biography/7855
Nicol Turner-Lee, Minority Media and Telecommunications Council chief research and policy officer
Lauren Wilson, Free Press policy counsel
http://www.savetheinternet.com/person/100354/lauren-wilson
moderated by Jonathan Make, Warren Communications News/Communications Daily managing editor
http://www.warren-news.com/personnel.htm
RSVP to Kathy Burns of SPJ
burnskathy@spj.org
$6 to cover the cost of light refreshments for National Press Club and SPJ members and their guests,
$8 for others; Students free.