Susan Crawford at Free Press Summit: Changing Media

Government intervention in newspapers and bandwidth

By Online Friday, October 9, 2009

Susan Crawford advocating for newspaper subsidies

Free Press Summit: Changing Media -- Susan Crawford

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm4efxOu ... r_embedded

2:22-2:53- Susan Crawford makes the case for why editors are so invaluable. They know better than the people what news is, in fact, news.
What’s government’s role: Decry the state of journalism, says how loyal you are to journalism.

4:47- 5:0: Suggest a set of steps to make sure some form of journalism may be provide, maybe just tools- some form of govt intervention.

5:56- 6:28: Twitter use and she uses CNN example

7:01- 7:35: The new reality- predicts ‘tremendous consolidation’
Crawford makes the claim that Europe and Japan are faster and cheaper than ours.

17:10- Crawford pitch for ‘access to broadband- broadband redistribution- promises light at end of tunnel for broadband AND newspapers.

Susan Crawford currently serves on President Barack Obamas National Economic Council. She led the FCC review team during the presidential transition. Previously, she taught Internet and communications law at the University of Michigan Law School. Crawford previously served as a member of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and is a founder of OneWebDay. Crawford received her B.A. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and J.D. from Yale University. She served as a clerk for Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Washington, D.C.) until the end of 2002, when she left that firm to enter the legal academy.

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