Derek oversees Free Press’ research and policy analysis. He has written extensively on a wide range of media and technology issues, and regularly testifies before Congress and the FCC. His reports have examined consolidation in the broadcast television industry, the economics of the pay-TV market, the state of domestic broadband competition, the role of the Universal Service Fund and the lack of female and minority media ownership. Derek holds a master's degree in public policy from the Goldman School at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received the 2006 Smolensky Prize for Outstanding Advanced Policy Analysis. He is the lead author of the book Changing Media: Public Interest Policies for the Digital Age.
Expert Analysis
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During the late 2010s, 21 rural Massachusetts towns voted to build their own fiber networks. A broken process from the Trump FCC nearly imperiled these networks.
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Free Press COO Kimberly Longey organized a municipal project to bring fiber internet to her community. Now the FCC is endangering this network — and others.
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Our look at a little corner of Western Massachusetts provides further proof that Pai’s attempt to close the digital divide is one of the most wasteful projects in agency history.
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FCC Chairman Pai’s bungled effort to close the rural-broadband digital divide looks more and more like one of the most wasteful projects in FCC history.
News
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With industry groups claiming that ISPs have slashed their prices, Consumer Reports is on a mission to analyze thousands of monthly bills from real customers.
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A recent Biden executive order calls on the FCC to to reinstate Net Neutrality protections and make broadband pricing more transparent and affordable.
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U.S. government data shows that home-internet customers pay more each year, but cable and telecom lobbies keep claiming that broadband prices are getting lower.
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The report from industry lobbying group USTelecom denies the reality that people in the United States are paying more for internet service.
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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This Free Press study offers a comprehensive look at the skyrocketing cost of internet access in the United States.
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Congressional Correspondence
Free Press Action filed a statement for the record related to the March 12 House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee hearing on "Saving the Free and Diverse Press."
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FCC Filing & Correspondence
In a filing, Free Press provides the definitive data on FCC Chairman Pai's failure to close the digital divide.
