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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Cable One — a broadband provider to 923,000 customers in 24 states — made some honest comments that should make regulators at the FCC sit up and take notice.
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Lawmakers finally seem to be getting more concerned about the deepening crisis in local journalism. Here’s our look at the bills that have been proposed so far.
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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.
News
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Just four months after disclosing a massive data breach, T-Mobile has again been hacked.
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Free Press explains that the FCC must remove any barriers that broadband providers might put in the way of people seeking to use these benefits to get online.
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The FCC doesn’t have the data it needs to ensure that the broadband-infrastructure money is spent where it’s most needed. But there’s a clear place to start: in communities of color.
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The average person living in a rural area in the United States simply cannot afford the cost of Starlink.
From the Policy Library
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FCC Filing & Correspondence
In these comments, Free Press offers guidance to the FCC on how to implement the infrastructure bill’s $14.2-billion Affordable Connectivity Program.
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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."
