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Free Press Co-CEO Jessica J. González is hopeful about new opportunities to regulate media, tech and telecom in the public interest.

The deal includes $3.2 billion for the FCC to provide a new emergency broadband benefit of $50 per month to low-income families and laid-off or furloughed workers.

“The stimulus bill’s broadband benefit is a historic achievement,” said Free Press Action Vice President of Policy and General Counsel Matt Wood.

Free Press’ Media 2070 project examines how white-dominated media organizations have perpetuated anti-Black racism.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito has asked the FCC to block broadband funding earmarked for Frontier, saying the ISP isn’t capable of delivering gigabit-speed service.

The brief opposes the Trump FCC’s unjustified attempt to reinstate its repeal of vital broadcast-ownership limits.

Critics say typical crime coverage is “racist, classist, fear-based clickbait.”

Free Press’ Alicia Bell, Joseph Torres and Collette Watson – the architects of Media 2070 – discuss what lies ahead for the organization’s media-reparations project.

Free Press Co-CEO Craig Aaron discusses the issues his group is currently working on as the incoming Biden administration takes shape.

“Let’s be honest: Crime coverage is terrible. It’s racist, classist, fear-based clickbait masking as journalism.”