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RELEASE: Former FCC Associate General Counsel and Chief Diversity Officer to lead New America's Media Policy Initiative

October 11, 2012

Washington, D.C. - The New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute (OTI) is pleased to announce Mark Lloyd, former Federal Communications Commission associate general counsel/chief diversity officer, will lead its Media Policy Initiative. 

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A Tech Innovation in Detroit: Connect People, Not Computers | Colorlines

October 3, 2012

“The innovation we’re doing here is not the technology,” says Josh Breitbart, director of field operations at the Open Technology Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that’s helping to develop software for Detroit’s mesh wireless network. “It’s the social networks.”

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On Campus, An Experiment To Save Local News | The New York Times

September 9, 2012

Mercer's is one of several such collaborations across the country. A 2011 study by the New America Foundation called on journalism schools to embrace the model of an “anchor institution” and do what they can to help local media outlets. Three universities in ...

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New America OTI Director Makes Digital Power Index

June 26, 2012

Sascha Meinrath, New America Foundation vice president and director of its Open Technology Institute, was named one of the Newsweek Digital Power Index’s Top 100 influencers.

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'Internet in a Suitcase' To Rescue Users? | Times Of India

June 12, 2012

"Such a system is useful for people to communicate in situations when governments don't want them to," The Telegraph quoted Sascha Meinrath, head of the project at the New America Foundation, as saying. ...

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Soon, 'Internet in a Suitcase' to Help Net Users Evade 'Government Censors' | Deccan Chronicle

June 12, 2012

"Such a system is useful for people to communicate in situations when governments don't want them to,"The Telegraph quoted Sascha Meinrath, head of the project at the New America Foundation, as saying.

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U.S. Project Seeks Online Freedom From Government Censors | Rappler

June 12, 2012

Such a system "is useful for people to communicate in situations when governments don't want them to," said Sascha Meinrath, head of the project at the New America Foundation. While Facebook and Twitter played a role in the Arab Spring uprisings, ...

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Online Freedom: An App For That Is Coming | Yahoo! Philippines News

June 11, 2012

Such a system "is useful for people to communicate in situations when governments don't want them to," said Sascha Meinrath, head of the project at the New America Foundation. While Facebook and Twitter played a role in the Arab Spring uprisings, ...

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Spinmeisters Give Truth Short Shrift In U.S. Campaign | Irish Times

May 24, 2012

In The Rise of Political Fact Checking, a report published by the New America Foundation in February, Dobbs dates the start of the fact-checking movement to Ronald Reagan's presidency, when Reagan claimed trees caused four times more pollution than ...

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No Longer Exclusive! FCC Says Tv Stations Must Post Data About Campaign Ads ... | Cleveland Plain Dealer

April 28, 2012

The students were taking veteran news man Bill Moyers up on his challenge -- in association with ProPublica, the New America Foundation and Free Press -- to visit local stations and uncover the data behind political ads.

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