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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As Sens. Baldwin, Luján, Schatz and Wyden note, the bill could be misused to help “supercharge harmful content online and make it more difficult to combat.”
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The chairwoman’s second year in office is about to begin, and it’s going to be bumpy for tech companies that think she’s just focused on Amazon.
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Today's funding notice takes an important step toward fulfilling Congress’ plan to finally close the rural broadband-deployment divide.
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Biden's internet “dream team” may end in a nightmare scenario.
From the Policy Library
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In these comments, Free Press outlines specific steps for the agency to take to ensure that millions more people can connect to affordable internet.
FCC Filing & Correspondence
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In these comments, Free Press offers guidance to the FCC on how to implement the infrastructure bill’s $14.2-billion Affordable Connectivity Program.
FCC Filing & Correspondence
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This is the written testimony that Free Press Action Vice President of Policy and General Counsel Matthew Wood submitted for a Dec. 1 congressional hearing.
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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.
FCC Filing & Correspondence
