Podcast appearances and mentions of craig aaron

00:08 — Craig Aaron, is Co-Ceo of Free Press. 00:33 — John Nichols, is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation. The post Media Policy Under the Trump Administration; Plus, National Politics Roundup with John Nichols appeared first on KPFA.

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When President-elect Donald Trump nominated Brendan Carr to be the next chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Trump called Carr a "warrior" for free speech. Free press advocate Craig Aaron, the co-CEO of the Free Press Action Fund, tells Forbes' Maggie McGrath that Carr could have a "chilling" effect on the ability of television news networks to do their jobs.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

11/12/24: Rep Patricia Duffy: Trump's return & the auditor investigating the legislature. Duke Goldman: the politics of sports in the age of Trump. Educator Todd Gazda: the effect of Trump's election on public education. Craig Aaron, Co-CEO of Free Press: Trump and Musk's control of the media & how we can fight back.

11/12/24: Rep Patricia Duffy: Trump's return & the auditor investigating the legislature. Duke Goldman: the politics of sports in the age of Trump. Educator Todd Gazda: the effect of Trump's election on public education. Craig Aaron, Co-CEO of Free Press: Trump and Musk's control of the media & how we can fight back.

11/12/24: Rep Patricia Duffy: Trump's return & the auditor investigating the legislature. Duke Goldman: the politics of sports in the age of Trump. Educator Todd Gazda: the effect of Trump's election on public education. Craig Aaron, Co-CEO of Free Press: Trump and Musk's control of the media & how we can fight back.

11/12/24: Rep Patricia Duffy: Trump's return & the auditor investigating the legislature. Duke Goldman: the politics of sports in the age of Trump. Educator Todd Gazda: the effect of Trump's election on public education. Craig Aaron, Co-CEO of Free Press: Trump and Musk's control of the media & how we can fight back.

Thursday, April 27th, 2023   Craig Aaron is the Co-CEO of Free Press and Free Press Action. We discuss the civic information bill in New Jersey and the promise of centering civic information in the media.   A vibrant multiracial democracy requires civic information media, which delivers the information that helps us live better lives in our communities. Journalism or civic media are a public good, and the public needs to invest in media along those lines. In New Jersey, bipartisan legislative support led to the civic information bill and the founding of the Civic Information Consortium. The best thing all of us can do right now is to support our local media. Read it and engage it!   Follow Craig on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/notaaroncraig    Follow Mila on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/milaatmos    Follow Future Hindsight on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/futurehindsightpod/   Love Future Hindsight? Take our Listener Survey!  http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=6tI0Zi1e78vq&ver=standard    Want to support the show and get it early?  https://patreon.com/futurehindsight    Check out the Future Hindsight website!  www.futurehindsight.com   Read the transcript here:  https://www.futurehindsight.com/episodes/civic-information-media-craig-aaron      Credits:  Host: Mila Atmos  Guests: Craig Aaron Executive Producer: Mila Atmos Producers: Zack Travis and Sara Burningham

There is a new opening to help the city with it's rat problem, and Craig thinks he is the guy for the gig. Aaron Judge is about to cash in, and so is somebody close to him. And Hal Steinbrenner had a very high level meeting today. 

I decided to do a solo episode this week because I think it's really sort of super important to highlight bias in the public policy profession – because it is a profession. Because over the last 17 years that I have been working on tech and media public policymaking, majority-white organizations have always seemed to think it's totally fine to attack organizations founded and led by people of color, orgs like this one, to pursue their status ambitions. So, let's be transparent, shall we? Just to give you some background – when I started working in this space – there was one organization in Washington – the Multicultural Media & Telecom Council (MMTC) – that focused specifically on telecommunications and media policymaking as they relate to underserved and underrepresented communities. This is where I cut my teeth as a young lawyer, in the ONLY fellowship in town for somebody like me who went to law school at night.  Their members are, and continue to be, some of the finest minds in the business – folks like Ari Fitzgerald, a partner at Hogan Lovells who was on the show last week.  These are lawyers of color primarily, who are at the top of this craft. And let me interject something here – this isn't Oakland. We are not Color of Change.  This is DC, it's a political town, it's buttoned-up, and comparing orgs of color in this town to orgs like Color of Change – is really just not a relevant comparison. A better comparison would be to an organization like NAACP or the National Urban League – both of which have local chapters but they're based in DC. Donations come from 2 primary categories here in DC – corporations and foundations – that's it. If you've been around a long time – like the NAACP, NUL, or AARP – you have members. You can raise money from them, in addition to seeking other forms of support. That is the way this market works.  Back around 2011 and 2012 it was organizations like Public Knowledge and Free Press calling out MMTC for accepting donations from Comcast. Again, one of the worst companies in the world for customer service. But they are internet service providers. It didn't matter if larger, huge nonprofits worked with these same companies – all that mattered was that Free Press and Public Knowledge needed someone to pick on when they were advocating for net neutrality. MMTC opposed net neutrality, which didn't make sense to me, which is why I started this organization when I was laid off from the Joint Center, where I co-led an institute along with Nicol Turner-Lee, which was also focused on telecommunications and media policy at the intersection of communities of color. So-called progressives with super-deep pockets didn't like orgs like MMTC because they were the only game in town – they had too much credibility – and they opposed net neutrality ( for reasons, by the way, I continue to be baffled by – but, in any case, they opposed it). So orgs like Public Knowledge and Free Press called them out – and I called out Public Knowledge and Free Press for having ZERO people of color working there but somehow having the audacity to try to drag MMTC.  And as a result of my advocacy – at least I like to think it was – since no one else was pushing back – Public Knowledge is led by the great Chris Lewis and Free Press, by Jessica Gonazlez, who serves co-president along with Craig Aaron.  These orgs now actively recruit diverse talent – they have changed drastically – and I'm proud of them. Jessica, Craig and Chris are my colleagues – just like you have colleagues in any profession – they fixed their model and stopped attacking MMTC. We'll see what happens when and if the net neutrality debate starts up again. But, for now, we're good. Joe Torres is at Free Press who wrote the book on diversity in the news profession.  SO LET'S forward to 2016. In 2016, when this organization – WashingTech – was still an LLC, for profit, Chanelle Hardy, someone I've known since I first moved to DC in 2005 – who had worked at the National Urban League, on the Hill, and the FCC – joined Google. And, again, as a result of my advocacy, since I was vocal about it, as I am now – one of our taglines then and now – is the Inclusive Voice of Tech Policy, since nobody else cared about that until George Floyd. In 2016, Google started a cohort of folks called Next Gen Policy Leaders – the only PROGRAM IN TOWN AT THE TIME – to engage and involve people of color in tech policy. I continue to participate in the program because it is educational, offers great networking, and, again, continues to fill a need that everyone else just woke up to a couple years ago: the lack of diversity on panels, at networking events, on faculties, you name it, related to tech policy issues.  Google was a first mover, while the rest of these tech companies, and nonprofits, were asleep.  So, whose fault is that? Whose fault is it that they've built loyalty by investing in us. Now, fast forward to today – here comes another organization – the so-called ‘Tech Transparency Project,' which, again, isn't a racially and ethnically diverse organization, attacking Google Next Gen in a mediocre paper suggesting that Google had bought out people of color so they wouldn't speak out about Timnit Gebru's firing – again Dr. Gebru is an engineer whom Google fired for speaking up about bias in one of Google's algorithms.  First, I OPPOSED her firing, and vocally, on a listserv read by many Next Gens and other people of color in this space. I blasted Google for it. I was livid. I was so vocal, no one else in the Next Gen cohort needed to be – which is always the case in this town – and let me tell you something, we get PENNIES compared to some of these larger organizations. Do you know what Google donated to us last year? $35,000. The rest of our funding came from Foundation support. But let's take a look at the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), which published their annual report  last week. Let's see what Google donated to CDT. And CDT is a partner of ours. I'm on their advisory council. Many of their fine scholars have been on this show. But let's take a look – How much did Google donate to CDT in 2021? Wait for it! Over $500,000. Two other donors gave that much – the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Knight Foundation. Now, let's use CDT's search feature on its website to see how much work they've done on  “Timnit Gebru.” How many times did CDT so much as mention Dr. Gebru's name, much less call out Google for firing her?  ZERO. How many times has the Tech Transparency Project called out CDT for failing to discuss Timnit Gebru? ZERO.  So come on, let's talk about ‘Tech Transparency,' everybody. I guarantee I've made more sacrifices in the cause of inclusion and so-called “transparency” in this space than most of Washington. Let's talk about it. 

The Digital Age has transformed the traditional media landscape. The so-called Fourth Estate is reeling. Thousands of journalists have lost their jobs. Newsrooms have shrunk. Beats have been eliminated. Bureaus have closed. Many important stories are given short shrift or not covered at all. Investigative journalism may soon be an endangered species. City hall and statehouse coverage has been particularly hard hit. Large parts of the country are served by one or no local newspapers. Internet giants like Facebook and Google, swimming in cash, run stories from hard-working reporters without offering fair compensation. It's a brutal scene. An uninformed or half-informed citizenry undermines democracy. Craig Aaron of Free Press warns, “There are incredibly important decisions being made in Washington that shape the future of media. But they're being done without the public's involvement or consent.”

With the rapid spread of disinformation endangering public health and polarizing politics, communities desperately need trustworthy local news. Years of runaway media consolidation and ad-driven clickbait have destroyed newsrooms and left major issues uncovered. Craig Aaron, co-CEO of Free Press, will discuss how to reverse these trends, rebuild local media with innovative policies, and reimagine […] The post The Future of the Media — and What You Can Do About It appeared first on KKFI.

The loss of an information source—a particular place for debate, for conversation, on issues relevant to you—is incalculable, but very real.  The post Craig Aaron on Local Journalism, Barbara Briggs on Workplace Disasters appeared first on FAIR.

DDP Radio LIVE with “Yoga Doc” Craig Aaron

0:08 – New federal COVID-19 relief package Dean Baker (@DeanBaker13) is senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. 0:34 – Local journalism in crisis Paul Cobb is the publisher and editor of the Post News Group (@PostNewsGroup), which includes eight newspapers, and one Spanish language paper, El Mundo, serving Bay Area minority communities. Craig Aaron (@notaaroncraig) is the President and CEO of Free Press and the Free Press Action Fund, dedicated to safeguarding net neutrality, opposing unchecked surveillance, and protecting public media. 1:08 – Alameda County passes new eviction moratorium Sabyl Landrum is Staff Attorney and Clinical Supervisor at the East Bay Community Law Clinic (@EBCLCNews) Jackie Zaneri is a tenant attorney at Centro Legal de la Raza (@centrolegal) 1:20 – Justice for Steven Taylor, a 33 year old man killed by San Leandro Police last weekend James Burch is an organizer with the Anti-Police Terror Project (@APTPaction). Action: Car protest to demand Justice for Steven Taylor, Saturday April 25 at 2:30pm Meeting at the 24 Hour Fitness in San Leandro; in cars only, with face masks (maintain social distancing) 1:34 – Art, music and meditation in the time of COVID Jennifer Johns is a powerhouse, vocalist, songwriter, producer, and entrepreneur who creates sounds, experiences, and products that are sure to stir your soul, inspire your mind and move your body singer/songwriter/producer who's . She's been leading daily morning meditations every morning during shelter-in-place on Facebook Live, follow her at Jenn Johns. (Photo: Post News Group / Twitter)   The post Inside the crisis in local journalism; Plus: Alameda County passes strong new eviction protections, and justice for Steven Taylor, killed by San Leandro police appeared first on KPFA.

In episode 3 you'll get to meet Chris Fink and Craig Smith from ONE&ALL Worship. Both of them share personal stories from their journey to ONE&ALL never before told anywhere else. They also give us a look into the heart behind the team called ONE&ALL Worship.

For the first half of the show, Mickey’s guest is investigative comic, Lee Camp, host of “Redacted Tonight” on RT Television, and author of the new book, “Bullet Points and…

In 2015, under great pressure from a broad media justice movement, the FCC passed Net Neutrality policies that guaranteed the universal right to go where users want to go on the Internet. In 2017, the Trump FCC under Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai moved quickly to repeal Net Neutrality. The movement responded with several tactics to win Net Neutrality back. One of those was a challenge in court, Mozilla v FCC. Last week, the court finally announced its decision. We speak with Craig Aaron of Free Press about that decision. While the court did not restore Net Neutrality, it did open the doors for the movement to use other tactics to achieve a free Internet. Aaron describes what those are and the bigger picture of an Internet for everyone.

We're in uncharted water with Trump and impeachment; part of what's exceptional are Trump's open threats to the whistleblower who brought forth the evidence of his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. What protections does that person have? And what's media's role and responsibility?

DDP Radio LIVE with “Yoga Doc” Dr. Craig Aaron

On today's program, we look at the state of the media as we hear updates from Craig Aaron, CEO and president of FreePress.net about their latest campaigns fighting big media…

Is Trump Setting Up the Next Holocaust? And When Is It Time To Use That Word Again? How Important is History? And what's the parallel between Reagan stealing Carter's debate prep and Trump taking stolen Dem data on Michigan, Wisconsin, etc.? How Complicit Is The GOP and Fox-So-Called-News with Trump? They & the Billionaires that Support Them Are All Refusing to Put America First. And finally, Craig Aaron joins us to discuss net neutrality.

Guest host Jefferson Smith answers your calls. Also, Eagan Kemp drops in to talk about the GOP's latest attack on the ACA. Craig Aaron from Free Press Action Fund talks about the end of net neutrality... or is it? Catherine Turcer, ED of Common Cause Ohio talks voting rights. And finally Ari Berman, senior reporter for Mother Jones talks Steve Bannon, Gerrymandering and more!

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President & CEO of Free Press Craig Aaron returns with an update on net neutrality and its possible death. More information about Craig Aaron is available at https://www.freepress.net/person/21/craig-aaron

With special guests Congressman Mark Pocan, DNC Chairman Tom Perez as well as Craig Aaron - to discuss Ajit Pai Rewriting Legal History of Net Neutrality .

President & CEO of Free Press Craig Aaron discusses net neutrality and the possible affect that an FCC decision against it may cause. More information about Craig Aaron is available at https://www.freepress.net/person/21/craig-aaron

On this week's program, we are excited to share the recent updates on Net Neutrality, the FCC and public media with our community! We feature guests, Craig Aaron, the President and CEO of Free Press and Dr. Bernadine Hernández, Associate Professor of American Literary Studies. Continuing with our amazing segment, The Resistance Headlines and share events of resistance happening in our community, including an update for the 24th Annual Recuerda a César Chávez Marcha y Fiesta by Danny Hernandez. Don’t forget to subscribe and rate us on iTunes!

This week we sit down with to Peter Simonson, the Executive Director for the ACLU of New Mexico to discuss what they're organizing and preparing for. You’ll also hear from the CEO and President of Free Press, Craig Aaron, and Campaign Director, Candace Clement on the “100 Days of Disruption,” an oppositional movement to the Trump Administration's #100Day plan. #Disrupt100

  DDP Radio: The (Yoga) Doc is in! DDP Yoga co-creator "Yoga Doc" Dr. Craig Aaron returns toDDP Radio    

CliffCentral.com — If the Guptas own South Africa, who owns the world? Rorisang Tshabalala and his guest Craig Aaron look at money, power and the new world order conspiracies. If it was obvious, it wouldn't be deception...

Over the past years, we have had many discussions about Net Neutrality with both proponents and opponents. With the Federal Communications Commission set to vote on a new net neutrality proposal, we talk again with Craig Aaron, the President and CEO of FreePress

In 2003, the Internet was reclassified as an information service instead of a public utility which reduced the Federal Communication Commission’s ability to control the giant telecoms’ behavior. Ever since, defenders of Internet freedom have been fighting to make it a public utility or common carrier again and the telecoms have been fighting to further commodify and profit from the Internet. After a dedicated ten month campaign, net neutrality activists have finally won. The FCC is expected to vote on reclassification on Feb. 26. While this is a victory and we will celebrate, there is more to do. Craig Aaron of Free Press explains why reclassification is necessary for net neutrality, but not sufficient. And David Isenberg who organizes Freedom to Connect discusses more steps that can be taken to guarantee that the Internet is a place for free speech in the 21st century and is available to everyone. For more information, visit www.ClearingtheFOGRadio.org.

The April 16, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody was the second of two parts on the Free Press National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, Colorado.  The show features excerpts from Free Press President/CEO Craig Aaron's opening and closing remarks at the conference, the remaining portions of an interview with Free Press co-founder Professor Bob McChesney, criticism from Project Censored's current and former directors Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips, and a response from Craig Aaron. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.   Click on the pod icon above or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer.  You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or your podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to:  mail@tellsomebody.us  Twitter: @tellsomebodynow Tell Somebody on facebook

The April 9, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody is the first of  two shows covering the 2013 National Conference for Media Reform in Denver , Colorado. We hear from conference attendee Janet Wilson, law professor and past president of the National Lawyers Guild Marjorie Cohn, former FCC commissioner Michael Copps, journalism professor and Free Press co-founder Bob McChesney, and Free Press president & CEO Craig Aaron. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio.  Click on the pod icon above or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer.  You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or your podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to:  mail@tellsomebody.us  Twitter: @tellsomebodynow Tell Somebody on facebook

On July 7, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit overturned the Federal Communications Commission’s attempt to weaken its ownership rules and allow big media companies to buy up even more local outlets. On the July 12, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody, we talked to Josh Stearns, Program Director with Free Press, www.freepress.net & www.savethenews.org, about federal court decision in Prometheus v FCC. Josh also talked about the new Free Press campaign to uncover and fight covert media consolidation called Change the Channels, and explains how this campaign has hit a nerve with Newport Television, a Kansas City company that is described as one of the worst covert consolidation offenders. In the second half of the show, we re-air a conversation with Free Press President and CEO Craig Aaron recorded at the National Conference on Media Reform in Boston in April. Click on the the pod icon above or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose save target as to save a copy of the audio file to your computer.  You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or your podcast directory.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

Nicole Sandler speaks with Shannyn Moore about Sarah Palin's latest outrage and the Pebble Mine; Paul Kawika Martin from Nagasaki on the 65th anniversary of our bombing; and freepress.net's Craig Aaron about net neutrality

www.freepress.net www.tellsomebody.us On Thursday, May 14th, 2009, Free Press held a Summit on Changing Media at the Newseum in Washington, DC.  Acting FCC Chair Michael Copps and Free Press' Senior Program Director Craig Aaron were among the featured  speakers.  Aaron's talk was headlined 'Journalism Is a Public Service.' On this edition of Tell Somebody, I talked about the summit with Craig Aaron, and also aired the comments made by Michael Copps.  

Discussing the Pros and Cons Cons of Net Neutrality with Craig Aaron from The SavetheInternet.com Coalition which urges Congress to preserve Network Neutrality, the First Amendment of the Internet.

Discussing the Pros and Cons Cons of Net Neutrality with Craig Aaron from The SavetheInternet.com Coalition which urges Congress to preserve Network Neutrality, the First Amendment of the Internet.

Jim Hedger and Dave Davies talk to Craig Aaron from SavetheInternet.com as well as United States Senator Byron Dorgan on the topic of Net Neutrality.

Craig talks about how save the internet dot com and how they are protecting Network Neutrality.

Craig talks about how save the internet dot com and how they are protecting Network Neutrality.