Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood New York City, November 17-18, 2011 McGraw-Hill Building, 49th Street and 6th Ave., New York City The Digital Hollywood Dinner Thursday, November 17th - 6:30 PM The FCC, Media and Government Initiatives - Universal Broadband and Media Consolidation to the Future of Local News . . . and more! Steven Waldman, Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, FCC Josh Gottheimer, Senior Counselor, FCC Susan Crawford, Professor at Cardozo Law School, former FCC Transition Team Leader Bruce Gottlieb, General Counsel, Atlantic Media Company, former, Chief Counsel, FCC Adam Thierer, Senior Research Fellow, George Mason University, former President, The Progress & Freedom Foundation Dinner Hosted by: Youtoo Susan Crawford is a professor at Cardozo Law School in New York City and a columnist for Bloomberg View. She served as Special Assistant to the President for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (2009) and co-led the FCC transition team between the Bush and Obama administrations. Ms. Crawford was formerly a professor at the University of Michigan Law School (2008-2010). As an academic, she teaches Internet law and communications law. In 2012, Yale University Press will publish her book, “The Big Squeeze: The Crisis in American Communications.” She was a member of the board of directors of ICANN from 2005-2008 and is the founder of OneWebDay, a global Earth Day for the internet that takes place each Sept. 22. One of Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology (2009); IP3 Awardee (2010); one of Prospect Magazine's Top Ten Brains of the Digital Future (2011). She is a member of the boards of Public Knowledge and TPRC. For calendar 2012, Ms. Crawford will be the (Visiting) Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard's Kennedy School, and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School. Ms. Crawford received her B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. She served as a clerk for Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale) (Washington, D.C.) until the end of 2002, when she left that firm to enter the legal academy. Susan, a violist, lives in New York City. Josh Gottheimer, Senior Counselor, FCC: Mr. Gottheimer serves as the Chairman's strategic advisor on a wide range of policy and legal matters with particular responsibility over the legislative, communications, intergovernmental affairs, and public liaison functions of the agency. He also focuses on steps the FCC can take -- including considering the recommendations in the National Broadband Plan - to help the FCC build a 21st century communications infrastructure the country needs to compete and win in the global economy. Mr. Gottheimer served previously as Executive Vice President, Worldwide at Burson-Marsteller, a global communications firm; Director of Strategic Communications at Ford Motor Company, where he oversaw corporate advertising; Senior Advisor to the United States Commission on Civil Rights; Special Assistant to the President and Presidential Speechwriter to President Bill Clinton; and Deputy Director of Speechwriting and Senior Policy Advisor to the John Kerry for President Campaign. Bruce Gottlieb is the General Counsel of the Atlantic Media Company, publisher of The Atlantic, National Journal, and Government Executive. He was formerly Chief Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission, responsible for managing the agency's overall policy agenda, and a senior advisor to Chairman Julius Genachowski. Before attending law school that he was a staff writer for Slate, where he originated the Explainer column, and he has written for publications including The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Republic. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and began his legal career as a clerk for Judge David S. Tatel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Steven Waldman, former, 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.