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This morning I saw the light. After years of helping Free Press battle AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon and every other company that appeared to be ripping us off, offering subpar service and threatening to destroy everything we love about the Internet, I have come around to the other side.
What does a journalist look like? I’ve been asking myself this question for the last four years, ever since I sat on one of the ripped-up seats in the small Albuquerque radio station that houses Generation Justice and spoke into the unfamiliar microphone in front of me.
On Monday, in a packed courtroom at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, lawyers for Verizon and the Federal Communications Commission faced rapid-fire questioning from the three judges who will decide whether the FCC’s Open Internet Order stands.
Our nation’s Internet freedom is under attack — and the consequences for communities of color couldn’t be greater. To protect our communities' digital rights, Free Press and the Center for Media Justice, along with ColorOfChange and the National Hispanic Media Coalition, recently launched Voices for Internet Freedom.
Sept. 9 is the next front in the long-running battle over what we can do and say online.
That’s the day Verizon will face the Federal Communications Commission in court over the agency’s Net Neutrality protections, which the company wants to overturn.
Earlier this month, I visited Sen. Amy Klobuchar's office to urge her to support the Television Consumer Freedom Act. This bill is a good way to begin to reform our deeply flawed video market.
At the exact moment that I’m writing this, the New York Times homepage is displaying stories authored by 35 men — and eight women.
And three of those eight articles were coauthored with men.
After British authorities detained the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald for nine hours and forced the Guardian, where Greenwald works, to destroy its computers, the Columbia Journalism Review declared this a “DEFCON 2 journalism event” — a reference to the code used when the country is one step away from nuclear war.
