Matt helps shape our policy team’s efforts to protect the open internet, prevent media concentration, promote affordable broadband deployment and safeguard press freedom. He’s served as an expert witness before Congress on multiple occasions. Before joining Free Press, he worked at the public interest law firm Media Access Project and in the communications practice groups of two private law firms in Washington, D.C. Before that, he served as editor-in-chief for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, worked for PBS, and spent time at several professional and college radio and television stations. Matt earned his B.A. in film studies from Columbia University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. Matt likes watching sports, riding his bicycle and talking about philosophy — just not all at the same time.
Expert Analysis
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The FCC commissioner and broadband providers are pretending that the California Net Neutrality law is jeopardizing veterans’ access to health care.
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During a new COVID surge and amid trauma from environmental disasters and police violence, the Trump FCC is giving away its power to get and keep people connected.
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Spoiler alert: Your wireless prices are going to go up.
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The Trump administration is recommending a veto of the Save the Internet Act if that bill reaches the president's desk. And the decision is based on faulty data.
News
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The FCC will need a fifth commissioner to push these initiatives forward.
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In an executive order, Biden took aim at how businesses from cable-TV firms to airlines to drug companies to cellphone makers push people around.
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Biden wants the agency to lower prices and protect consumers, but he must break a 2–2 deadlock.
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The executive order is important, but the processes and personnel to actually move ahead on these priorities are not in place yet.
From the Policy Library
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FCC Filing & Correspondence
This filing documents a meeting Free Press held with members of FCC Commissioner Starks’ office about a Free Press report on the rising cost of internet access.
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Congressional Correspondence
Free Press Action’s Matt Wood submitted these responses to congressional-committee questions after the hearing “Connecting America: Broadband Solutions to Pandemic Problems.”
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Free Press Action VP Matt Wood delivered this written testimony, which argues that broadband must be treated as an essential utility.
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FCC Filing & Correspondence
Free Press and other groups urge the FCC to reconsider its Title II repeal and restore the agency’s authority to support broadband adoption with the Lifeline program.
