that the report deserves this description is no surprise given steve walden penn press, diverse uniquekground. steve worked for many years as a highly respected reporter and editor at publications including newsweek and u.s. news and world report. he's also a successful internet entrepreneur, having created an online community that had millions of americans as regular users and he also wrote for "the wall street journal".com. he was the ideal person to lead the effort on this report, and on behalf of all of us, thank you for your service. this was a group effort within the agency great example of collaboration across departments and grateful to all the staff who worked on this often squeezing on top of their other responsibilities. i want to especially note the deputy chief of the office of strategic planning and the senior counsel, senior adviser for the extraordinary work. i also want to note just to lead into the presentation steve attracted an impressive collection of outside journalist academic and scholars to help develop the report that improved professor james hamilton of duke,

that the report deserves this description is no surprise given steve walden penn press, diverse unique background. steve worked for many years as a highly respected reporter and editor at publications including newsweek and u.s. news and world report. he's also a successful internet entrepreneur, having created an online community that had millions of americans as regular users and he also wrote for "the wall street journal".com. he was the ideal person to lead the effort on this report, and on behalf of all of us, thank you for your service. this was a group effort within the agency great example of collaboration across departments and grateful to all the staff who worked on this often squeezing on top of their other responsibilities. i want to especially note the deputy chief of the office of strategic planning and the senior counsel, senior adviser for the extraordinary work. i also want to note just to lead into the presentation steve attracted an impressive collection of outside journalist academic and scholars to help develop the report that improved professor james hamilton of d

walden, prefer -- before i turn it over to steve walden for his presentation, let me say a few wordsf introduction. in 2009, a bipartisan commission of the night foundation looked at how technology is changing the media landscape and effecting the information needs of communities. the night commission called on the fcc to examine some of the issues more closely and i asked steve walden to come to the commission to lead a working group to do so, to assess the landscape, identify trends, and make recommendations on how the information needs of community can best be met in a broadband world. today i'm proud to say they have completed and delivered their report. the project chair, steve walden is here to present the key findings and recommendations of the staff report. before i turn it over to steve, a few brief comments about th

that the report deserves this description is no surprise given steve walden penn press, diverse uniquekground. steve worked for many years as a highly respected reporter and editor at publications including newsweek and u.s. news and world report. he's also a successful internet entrepreneur, having created an online community that had millions of americans as regular users and he also wrote for "the wall street journal".com. he was the ideal person to lead the effort on this report, and on behalf of all of us, thank you for your service. this was a group effort within the agency great example of collaboration across departments and grateful to all the staff who worked on this often squeezing on top of their other responsibilities. i want to especially note the deputy chief of the office of strategic planning and the senior counsel, senior adviser for the extraordinary work. i also want to note just to lead into the presentation steve attracted an impressive collection of outside journalist academic and scholars to help develop the report that improved professor james hamilton of duke,

that the report deserves this description is no surprise given steve walden penn press, diverse uniqueround. steve worked for many years a a highly espected reporter and editor at publications including newsweek and u.s. news and world report. he's also a successful internet entrepreneur, having created an online community that had millions of americans as regular users and he also wrote for "the wall street journal".com. he was the ideal person to lead the effort on this report, and on behalf of all of us, thank you for your service. this was a group effort within the agency great example of collaboration across departments and grateful to all the staff who worked on this often squeezing on top of their other responsibilities. i want to especially note the deputy chief of the office of strategic planning and the senior counsel, senior adviser for the extraordinary work. i also want to note just to lead into the presentation steve attracted an impressive collection of outside journalist academic and scholars to help develop the report that improved professor james hamilton of duke, ell

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