Tim builds on the organization’s grassroots and policy work to promote universal access to open networks, defend acts of journalism and protect free speech everywhere. Before joining Free Press, Tim served as the vice president of business development for Globalvision New Media and the executive director of MediaChannel. He worked throughout Southeast Asia as an editor, reporter and photojournalist for the Associated Press, The New York Times, Time, Inc., and Australia Consolidated Press. His criticism, analysis and reporting on the media and media policy have been featured in USA Today, The Guardian, Time, MSNBC, The Chicago Tribune, HuffPost, The Japan Times, The Jakarta Post, Al Ahram and dozens of other publications worldwide.
Expert Analysis
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Facebook has become a megaphone for hate and misinformation. We need to do more than hope that the mammoth social network can fix itself.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s decision to ban political ads from the platform lit up Twitter with praise. But this issue isn’t as straightforward as many believe.
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The company’s promises to do better typically amount to little in practice.
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New research from Comparitech shows how much money AT&T, Comcast and Verizon are spending to promote toxic mergers and oppose Net Neutrality.
News
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The company's inability to contend with the platform's enormous amount of hateful content is having dangerous ramifications in the real world.
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If we want to get serious about reversing journalism’s downward economic spiral, a digital-ad tax is a good place to start.
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Commercial journalism is failing in many countries around the world, with cost-cutting measures depriving news operations of the resources they need to survive.
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Timothy Karr talks about Mark Zuckerberg’s "free expression tour," political ads and Free Press’ online ad-tax proposal.
From the Policy Library
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The broadband industry lobby will say anything to discredit the Save the Internet Act. Free Press Action sets the record straight with this Big Cable debunker.
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This Free Press report explores how the multibillion-dollar business behind online advertising could revitalize journalism and strengthen democracy.
