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In 1961, Newt Minow \u2014 then Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission \u2014 delivered a landmark speech to the National Association of Broadcasters on \u201cTelevision and the Public Interest,\u201d in which he described television programming as a “vast wasteland” and advocated for public interest programming. Fifty years later Newt Minow \u2014 and a slate of distinguished guests \u2014 reflect upon the changed landscape of television and dramatic shifts in the broader media ecosystem, and identify lessons learned that may help to offer insight into the next 50 years of media and public discourse. <\/p>\n
Guests include Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow, Ann Marie Lipinski of the Nieman Foundation, Jonathan Alter of Bloomberg View, Yochai Benkler of Harvard Law School, as well as Terry Fisher, Yochai Benkler, John Palfrey, and Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School. Other respondents include acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Susan Crawford of Cardozo School of Law, Perry Hewitt of Harvard University, Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University School of Law – Camden, Virginia Heffernan of the New York Times, Former Chairman of the FCC Reed Hundt, Former Chairman of the FCC Kevin Martin, Nicholas Negroponte of One Laptop per Child, Ethan Zuckerman of C4\/Berkman Center.<\/p>\n
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