Luncheon Speakers
Thomas Johnson, general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission, noted the difficulty regulators face in predicting how technology will develop and transform markets at a Communications Forum luncheon …
First Amendment Trends
A collection of timely articles and essays on current developments by members of The Media Institute’s First Amendment Advisory Council.
The First Amendment: Rock Star of the American Constitution
Foreword by Floyd Abrams
The Internet’s Enduring Free Speech Legacy
April 18, 2019 | By Guest Authors: Stuart N. Brotman and Shiela Hawkins
Old Tools in Different Hands: Speech Regulation on Campus
September 27, 2018 | By Greg Lukianoff and Adam Goldstein
Wearing Political Messages Inside a Polling Place
May 1, 2018 | By Rodney Smolla
The Epistemic and Moral Dimensions of Fake News and the First Amendment
March 28, 2018 | By Ashley Messenger
Media & Communications Policy Blog
Informed and thoughtful commentary on a variety of First Amendment and communications policy issues.
Don’t Let Huawei Control 5G
By Guest Author Adonis Hoffman, Esq.
President Trump has taken a firm stand against Huawei, the Chinese telecom behemoth – and for good reason. …
Broadcasting Today: Energized by Innovation
By Guest Author Gordon Smith
There is a saying that goes, “Everybody has a story to tell.” My own NAB Show story began a decade ago – almost to this day …
Campaign To Break Big Tech Is Regulatory Overkill
By Guest Author Adonis Hoffman, Esq.
When Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) first went on the warpath against big banks, she captured the …
Issue Watch
The Senate Judiciary Committee took a hard look at digital advertising Tuesday (May 21), both from a standpoint of …
A clear majority of viewers do at least some of their video watching online rather than, or in addition to, broadcast …
The reconfigured T-Mobile-Sprint deal appears to have the three votes needed to secure approval by the five-member …
Recent Court Briefs
The Institute participated with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and other amici in two friend-of-the-court briefs:
In re Fine Point Films & Trevor Birney
Search and Seizure of Journalists’ Work Products at Issue in U.K. Case
CIR v. SEPTA
Transit System Ad Policy Is Unconstitutionally Vague
Transit System Ad Policy Is Unconstitutionally Vague https://t.co/ed6V6BFmOH
“An excellent speech” was delivered Wednesday at @TheMediaInst Communication Forum Luncheon by @FCC General Counsel Tom Johnson. - Radio+TV Broadcast Report
Respectfully concur!
‘Regulatory Humility’: The Pai Commission Explained
https://t.co/Gw5mudpCef
An excellent speech by the @FCC’s excellent general counsel, @TomMJohnsonJr, @TheMediaInst! Touches on everything from weddings to FM radio to regulatory humility to our proposal to update leased access rules. Check it out:
https://t.co/xJ3WFZ2z4r https://t.co/RLQ4s0tSgY
Read the full text of my remarks before the @TheMediaInst on Humility: The Media Regulator's Essential Virtue. And don't miss my bold prediction on where communications technology is heading next!
https://t.co/B3PGesP7IS
Per @TomMJohnsonJr at @TheMediaInst, the @FCC chairman has circulated updates to the commission's leased access rules, which reserve channel capacity for unaffiliated programmers. The item would remove that requirement and will be up for vote in June, he said.
October 21-27, 2019
Free Speech Week is a yearly,
non-partisan celebration of the value of
free speech and expression.
