After Google and Facebook: The Future of Journalism and Democracy | | The Center for Journalism & Liberty of the Open Markets Institute, in cooperation with the Washington Monthly, is hosting a day-long virtual conference Tuesday April 20, 2021.
Building off of the Monthly's cover package on the future of journalism, the discussion will bring together lawmakers, law enforcers, journalists, and policy analysts to discuss how to structure the U.S. market for news and advertising to ensure a financially independent free press in America, at the national regional, and local level. The discussion will focus closely on recent actions against Google and Facebook by law enforcers in Washington, individual U.S. states, and Australia, and on plans to rebuild the sort of journalism we need to keep democracy healthy and safe.
The one-day virtual symposium will include multiple sessions and panels focusing on challenges to media independence, including policy enforcement, sustainability strategies, market structures and equitable advertising systems. The conversations will include debates about new legislation, the actions in Australia, alternative business models and other media matters complicated by Google and Facebook’s domination and influence. See below for schedule of events. RSVP here.
Keynote Speakers:
- Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Antitrust Subcommittee
- Rep. David Ciccilline, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee's Antitrust Subcommittee
Other Speakers:
- Julia Angwin, editor in chief at The Markup, author of Dragnet Nation
- Andrea Coscelli, chief executive, UK Competition and Markets Authority
- Dr. Letrell Crittenden, communication professor Thomas Jefferson University
- Rana Foroohar, Financial Times columnist/editor and author of Don’t Be Evil
- Paul Glastris, editor in chief of the Washington Monthly
- Grade Gedye, editor at the Washington Monthly
- Sally Hubbard, director of enforcement policy at OMI and author of Monopolies Suck.
- Mandy Jenkins, former GM of McClatchy’s Compass Experiment in Youngstown, Ohio
- Phillip Longman, senior editor of the Washington Monthly and OMI policy director
- Dr. Amanda Lotz, digital media professor Queensland University of Technology
- Dr. Johnny Ryan, senior fellow at Irish Council for Civil Liberties, OMI fellow and former chief privacy officer at Brave Software
- Rod Sims, chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
- Ben Smith, New York Times media columnist, former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed
- Dina Srinivasan, founder of Effidia, an adtech company whose technology was acquired by WPP
- Dr. Nikki Usher, professor University of Illinois and CJL fellow, author of News for the Rich, White, and Blue (June 2021)
- Steve Waldman, president of Report for America, and coordinator of the Rebuild Local News Coalition
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