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WASHINGTON — Free Press Research Director S. Derek Turner will testify on Thursday on behalf of the Free Press Action Fund and the SavetheInternet.com coalition before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

WASHINGTON — The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet voted Wednesday to move forward with a congressional “resolution of disapproval” of the Federal Communications Commission’s Net Neutrality rules adopted in December.

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, Free Press announced that President and CEO Josh Silver will be stepping down from his role leading the national, nonpartisan, nonprofit media reform group. Craig Aaron, currently the managing director, will become the new president and CEO in mid-April.

WASHINGTON – Senators Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) introduced a bill Friday that would eliminate federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. DeMint also attacked public broadcasting in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published the same day.

WASHINGTON — In its March open meeting on Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the issue of retransmission consent.

In response to the announcement of the The Reforming Airwaves by Developing Incentives and Opportunistic Sharing (RADIOS) Act, Free Press Policy Counsel M. Chris Riley made the following statement:

WASHINGTON — In its March open meeting Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on reforms to the Universal Service Fund’s Lifeline and Link-Up programs. Lifeline and Link-Up provide discounts on monthly service and initial installation or activation fees for telephone service to income-eligible consumers.

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously against AT&T’s claim that personal privacy rights prevent the federal government from disclosing agency records that might reveal corporate wrongdoing to the public. The case, Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T, No.

WASHINGTON — According to reports Monday, cable operator and Internet service provider Mediacom appears to have been caught hijacking its users’ Web-browsing activity for the purpose of injecting unsolicited advertisements.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), in a speech to religious broadcasters on Sunday, warned that “the FCC is creeping further into the free market by trying to regulate the Internet.” The speaker was referring to the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet rules issued last December.