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Hearing: A New Age for Newspapers: Diversity of Voices, Competition and the Internet

Date: Apr 21 2009 - 2:00pm - 6:00pm

A New Age for Newspapers: Diversity of Voices, Competition and the Internet

House Subcommittee on the Courts and Competition Policy and the Internet
2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
2:00 PM
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_090421.html

Panel I

Carl Shapiro, Deputy assistant Attorney General for Electronics, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice

Panel II

Brian Tierney, Chief Executive Officer, Philadelphia Media Holdings

John Nichols, American Journalist

Bernie Lunzer, President, The Newspaper Guild

Ben Scott, Policy Director, Free Press

C. Edwin Baker, Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Free Press Calls for National Journalism Strategy at House Hearing

The House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Courts and Competition Policy and the Internet held a hearing on "A New Age for Newspapers: Diversity of Voices, Competition and the Internet." At that hearing, Free Press, a public interest advocate organization, called for a national journalism strategy to address the problems in the newspaper industry and promote a vibrant news marketplace.

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New antitrust relief for newspapers opposed

Carl Shapiro, Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, rejected new immunity from antitrust laws for teetering newspapers struggling to compete with Internet providers of news, entertainment and advertising.

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In Congress, No Love Lost for Newspapers

The House Judiciary Committee called a hearing yesterday to study the decline of the newspaper business, but it quickly deteriorated into a press-bashing session. Ideologues of the left and right made no effort to conceal their yearning for a day without journalists, when public officials would no longer be scrutinized.

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