Media and Technology Policy Research at the New America Foundation

While in graduate school, I interned and then worked as a research associate at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C. I worked with the Media Policy Initiative and Open Technology initiative to conduct research, write and edit policy papers, and launch and manage the blogs for both programs. I also assisted with events, including organizing my own panel discussion (which you can watch above) as part of the launch of a policy paper on local media in D.C., on which I was lead author. For that same report, available below, I also developed research methodologies and outreach/promotion strategies that would be used for later papers in the series.

My research focused on local media, in support of a grant we received from the Knight Foundation Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. However, I also contributed to work on broadcasters' public interest obligations, net neutrality, and broadband adoption, among other topics.  Below are the reports I worked on and select blog posts.

Policy papers:

• Washington, D.C.: Addressing Information Divides With Diverse Approaches (lead researcher)
• Seattle: A Digital Community Still in Transition

Blog posts:

• Shepard Fairey vs. the AP: Did Hope Win?
• Long-Form Journalism for the Short Attention Span
• Wired Cities
• All Media Is Local: Comments from the FCC's "Media in Your Community" Forum
• Filling the Pipes: Why Broadband Is Valuable