Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the New York Appellate Division, First Department, in Rainbow v. WPIX. The case involved a media outlet that misidentified a public school teacher accused of bullying. The teacher, Starlight Rainbow, appealed after the trial court ruled in favor of the [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 10-1-19 In a victory for ISPs, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has unanimously upheld most of the Republican-led FCC's deregulation of Internet access in the 2017 Restoring Internet Freedom (RIF) order. The court said the FCC was reasonable in reclassifying [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 9-23-19 Washington was abuzz Monday (Sept. 23) after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated the FCC's most recent effort to deregulate broadcast ownership, which the FCC under various, usually Republican, chairs, has been trying to do for most of the past two decades. The [...]
Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the Court of Appeal, State of California in Becerra v. Superior Court for the City and County of San Francisco. This is a California Public Records Act (CPRA) case in which the First Amendment Coalition and KQED submitted a CPRA [...]
Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, in Digital First Media d/b/a The Trentonian v. Ewing Township. The case involves the New Jersey Open Public Records Act (OPRA). The Trentonian requested Use of Force Reports (UFRs) compiled after police used [...]
By Diane Bart, Reuters, 9-6-19 Two groups of U.S. state attorneys general on Friday announced separate antitrust probes of large tech companies such as Alphabet’s Google and Facebook. The first probe, led by New York and including seven other states and the District of Columbia, focuses on Facebook. The second, announced by Texas and likely to [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 9-5-19 FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is proposing to "modernize" more media ownership rules at the FCC's September meeting, according to Pai, who has periodically taken out the regulatory weed whacker he promised to clear out some bureaucratic underbrush. The commission is scheduled to issue a tentative agenda Sept. [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 9-4-19 Turns out YouTube and parent Google will pay $170 million to settle allegations it violated children's privacy laws, the largest-ever fine for such a violation, with the government saying that YouTube does indeed contain child-directed content. That is according to the Federal Trade Commission on Sept. 4. [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 9-4-19 The FCC's new KidVid rule revamp takes effect Sept. 16, the FCC said this week, except for the reporting requirements that must still get approval from the Office of Management and Budget. The effective date was 30 days after the rule changes – adopted in July – [...]
Caroline Beasley of Beasley Media Group and Fred Ryan of Washington Post To Be Honored FOR RELEASE: September 4, 2019 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., September 4, 2019 – Two individuals widely known for their respective work in media policy and on-air journalism will present awards at The Media Institute’s [...]