Shaping Media Policy for the 21st Century

A Conversation with the FCC's Steve Waldman

New America Foundation
Thursday, February 25, 2010
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

The recession has compounded the financial turmoil faced by institutions of the press. Newspapers have closed, media ownership has consolidated, and few companies have been able to build sufficient revenue through online distribution. Moreover, as the recently issued Knight Report, Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in a Digital Age, stated: "The digital age is creating an information and communications renaissance. But it is not serving all Americans and their local communities equally."
All of which begs the question: What, if anything, can policymakers do to broaden and improve the new media ecosystem?

The New America Foundation's Media Policy Initiative is pleased to welcome the Federal Communications Commission's Steve Waldman in conversation with Michael Kinsley. Waldman is leading an initiative at the FCC to examine the future of media at a moment when policy intervention in the media space will have profound implications for decades to come. He will discuss the policy questions he is facing with Kinsley, one of America's most innovative news editors. Steve Coll, President of the New America Foundation, former senior editor at The Washington Post and staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, will introduce the speakers.

Introduction

Steve Coll
President, New America Foundation

Featured Speakers

Steven Waldman
Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the FCC, Office of Strategic Planning

Michael Kinsley
Senior Editor, The Atlantic

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