Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Media Summit 2010 Bloomberg BusinessWeek Thursday, March 11 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM Session A: Defending the News and Media Industries: Restructuring, Recovery and Technology – the Role of the Media Industry, Wall Street, Government and Non-Profits Timothy Karr, Campaign Director, Free Press Steven Waldman, Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, FCC Michael Wolff, founder, Newser and Columnist, Vanity Fair Andrew Keen, Author and Advisor to Arts & Labs Jane Mago, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, National Association of Broadcasters George Mahoney, Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel of Media General, Inc. Anne M. Swanson, Member, Dow Lohnes, Moderator Jane Mago, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, directs the work of the NAB legal department. She is responsible for all aspects of NAB’s legal strategy and for ensuring that NAB’s pleadings before the FCC, the Courts, and other administrative agencies effectively advocate on behalf of NAB’s members. Her areas of expertise include Constitutional issues (including First Amendment matters), FCC ownership rules, political broadcasting, EEO, administrative law, enforcement and licensing matters. Jane joined the NAB in 2004 after more than 26 years at the FCC. Her prior work at the FCC included many high level positions such as General Counsel, Chief of the Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, Deputy Chief of the Enforcement Bureau and legal advisor to three commissioners. Jane is a member of the New York Bar. Jane holds BA, MA and JD degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She lives in McLean, Virginia with her husband, Robert Blau, and their three children. Steven Waldman, Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, FCC: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced today the appointment of Steven Waldman, a highly respected Internet entrepreneur and journalist, to lead an agency-wide initiative to assess the state of media in these challenging economic times and make recommendations designed to ensure a vibrant media landscape. In October 2009, the bipartisan Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy called for “new thinking” to “ensure the information opportunities of America’s people and the information vitality of our democracy” and proposed FCC action. The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism has highlighted the dire circumstances for newspapers, and both the Knight report and a recent study from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism called for a full reassessment of the media marketplace both inside and outside of government, including at the FCC. Waldman is the Co-Founder, President, and Editor-in-Chief of Beliefnet.com, the largest multi-faith Web site for religion and inspiration, and served as its CEO from 2002 until 2007, when it was acquired by News Corporation. Under his leadership, Beliefnet won the top editorial awards on the Internet, including the General Excellence Award from the Online News Association and the National Magazine Award for General Excellence Online. Waldman, who will join the Office of Strategic Planning and serve as Senior Advisor to the Chairman, will work with the relevant FCC bureaus and lead an open, fact-finding process to craft recommendations to meet the traditional goals of serving the public interest and making sure that all Americans receive the information, educational content, and news they seek. He will step down from Beliefnet and News Corporation and discontinue his blog and the regular column he writes for Wall Street Journal Online. Before creating Beliefnet, Waldman served as National Editor of US News & World Report and was National Correspondent for Newsweek. He’s author of the New York Times bestseller FOUNDING FAITH: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America. He also served as Senior Advisor to the CEO of the Corporation for National Service in the 1990s. His work has appeared in numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, National Review Online, Huffington Post, The Atlantic, ChristianityToday.com, The Washington Monthly and Slate. He has been a regular commentator on national television and radio programs including Fox & Friends, Fox Business, Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNN Headline News, ABC World News With Charles Gibson, NPR’s All Things Considered and On the Media, and many others. He was named a “Spiritual Innovator” by Time magazine. Andrew Keen, Author and Advisor to Arts & Labs: Andrew Keen is an author and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He is the author of the international hit CULT OF THE AMATEUR: How the Internet is killing our culture. Acclaimed by The New York Times’ Michiko Kakutani as having been written “with acuity and passion” and by A.N. Wilson in the London Daily Mail as “staggering”, Cult of the Amateur has been published in fifteen different language editions and was short-listed for the 2008 Higham’s Business Technology Book of the Year award. As a pioneering Internet entrepreneur, Andrew founded Audiocafe.com in 1995 and built it into a popular first generation Internet music company. He was the executive producer of the new media show “MB5 2000” and, between 2001 and 2007, worked as a executive at several Silicon Valley based technology start-ups including Pulse, Santa Cruz Networks, Pure Depth and afterTV. Andrew was educated at London University where he was awarded a First Class Honours Degree in Modern History, as a British Council Fellow at the University of Sarajevo and at the University of California at Berkeley here he earned a Masters Degree in Political Science. Andrew is currently writing a second book entitled DIGITAL VERTIGO: Anxiety, Loneliness and Inequality in the Social Media Age which will be published in 2011 by St Martins Press. Michael Wolff, founder, Newser and Columnist, Vanity Fair: Michael Wolff, a columnist for Vanity Fair and two-time National Magazine Award winner, is one of the nation's most influential writers about media, culture and politics. He is a commentator for CNBC and the founder of Newser (www.newser.com), the news aggregator. In 2003, he achieved international recognition for his dispatches from the Persian Gulf as the Iraq War began. His work, which has been widely anthologized, has appeared in numerous publications in the U.S., including New York Magazine, where he was a columnist, and the Guardian and Spectator in the U.K. He is the author of five books, includingAutumn of the Moguls (HarperBusiness, 2003) and Burn Rate (Simon & Schuster, 1998) and The Man Who Owns the News (Random House, 2008), a biography of Rupert Murdoch, based on nine months of interviews with Murdoch and his family and associates. He lives in New York City. Timothy Karr, Campaign Director, Free Press: Timothy Karr manages all online initiatives -- including SavetheInternet.com, StopBigMedia.com and InternetforEveryone.org. Tim speaks and writes about the state of journalism and the future of the Internet. Before joining Free Press, Tim was executive director of MediaChannel.org and vice president of the Globalvision News Network. He has also worked extensively as an editor, reporter and photojournalist for the Associated Press, Time Inc., the New York Times and Australia Consolidated Press. Tim has been quoted in publications across the country and has been featured as a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN, NPR and ABC News Radio, among other places. He blogs for The Huffington Post and at MediaCitizen Anne M. Swanson, Member, Dow Lohnes: Anne Swanson joined Dow Lohnes as a Member in 1997. With over twenty-five years as a communications lawyer, she has worked on a wide variety of FCC rulemaking proceedings and mergers and financial transactions involving communications companies of all types. She has also specialized in defending clients against FCC enforcement actions and advising clients on complex spectrum and broadcast regulatory issues. Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Swanson served as law clerk to federal judges in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. After her first year in law school, she served as a summer legal intern to the FCC Chairman. Prior to attending graduate and law schools, Ms. Swanson spent a year at the White House as editor of the President's daily news summary and during college served as an intern with the National Security Council staff. Ms. Swanson's professional activities have included her service as president of the Federal Communications Bar Association ("FCBA") as well as membership on the National Advisory Board of the Catholic University Columbus School of Law's CommLaw Conspectus. She has served as the FCBA's president, president-elect, delegate to the American Bar Association, treasurer and assistant treasurer as well as the chairman of a number of its committees. Ms. Swanson also recently completed a three-year term as a member of the Governing Committee of the American Bar Association's Forum on Communications. She is a frequent panelist at communications industry and continuing legal education seminars.