WASHINGTON -- In testimony before the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, Free Press Research Director <strong>S. Derek Turner</strong> urged lawmakers to make universal, affordable broadband a priority in any plans to reform the Universal Service Fund (USF).

WASHINGTON -- The three federal agencies charged with overseeing $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus funds -- the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the Department of Agriculture and the Federal Communications Commission -- held their first joint public meeting on the grants funded by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.

WASHINGTON -- Today, former Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) will join Free Press and the Open Internet Coalition on a national conference call to outline ways to implement model broadband stimulus programs that promote the public interest and guide future technology policy.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama announced today the nomination of Julius Genachowski as chair of the Federal Communications Commission.

WASHINGTON -- InternetforEveryone.org -- the broad-based initiative to connect every American to fast, open and affordable Internet -- has released <em><a href="http://www.internetforeveryone.org/americaoffline/nc">Five Days on the Digital Dirt Road</a></em>, a unique, multimedia report on the digital divide in rural America.

<p class="body">WASHINGTON -- On March 7, hundreds of North Carolinians from all walks of life will debate the future of the Internet at a town hall meeting sponsored by InternetforEveryone.org -- a broad-based initiative to connect every American to a fast, open and affordable Internet.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted to ban the reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, a long-defunct broadcasting regulation that was taken off the books in 1987, by adopting two amendments to the D.C. House Voting Rights Act.

WASHINGTON -- Free Press released <em><a href="http://www.freepress.net/files/Angels_in_the_Details.pdf">Putting the Angels in the Details: A Roadmap for Broadband Stimulus Success</a></em>, a set of specific recommendations for the three federal agencies charged with overseeing $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus funds.

WASHINGTON -- Free Press released <em><a href="http://www.freepress.net/files/fp-FairnessDoctrine.pdf">The Fairness Doctrine Distraction</a></em>, a policy brief that explains why Congress should ignore any attempts to revive the legislative debate over the long-defunct broadcasting regulation.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has signed into law the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, unleashing $7.2 billion to expand broadband access and adoption. The law attaches open Internet conditions to broadband funds and directs the Federal Communications Commission to produce a national broadband plan.