FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 27, 2011
Contact:
Andrew Jay Schwartzman
202-454-5861
andys@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court of the United States today granted the government’s petition for certiorari challenging a lower court decision which held that the Federal Communications Commission’s policies on broadcast “indecency” violated the First Amendment.
Media Access Project (MAP) represents the Center for Creative Voices in Media and the [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 27, 2011
Contact:
Andrew Jay Schwartzman
202-454-5681
andys@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court of the United States today invalidated a California statute that prohibits the sale or rental of violent video games to minors, in a case entitled Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association.
Media Access Project (MAP) filed an amici curiae brief in the case on behalf [...]

For Immediate Release
June 9, 2011
Contact:
Andrew Jay Schwartzman
202-454-5681
andys@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON –   The FCC’s long-awaited staff report on the future of media “appears to contain a sound diagnosis but falls short on recommendations for treatment,” according to Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Senior Vice President and Policy Director [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 31, 2011
Contacts:
Andrew Jay Schwartzman            Chrystiane Pereira
202-454-5681                                   202 454-5683
andys@mediaaccess.org              cpereira@mediaaccess.org
The following is the text of the summary of the Petition to Deny the applications for assignment of control of T-Mobile USA to AT&T Mobility.  Media Access Project will file the petition on May [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 25, 2010
Prepared for Delivery at Press Briefing Conducted by
John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member, House Committee on the Judiciary
There are plenty of reasons why the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile transaction is bad for competition, bad for consumers and bad for the economy.
One important factor which should convince the Department of Justice and the FCC to [...]

For Immediate Release
Contact: Andrew Schwartzman
202.454.5681
press@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON – On Monday, Media Access Project (MAP) announced that its
Associate Director, Matt Wood, will become Policy Director of Free Press, a
nonprofit media reform organization, beginning on June 1.
*Andrew Jay Schwartzman*, MAP Senior Vice President and Policy Director,
issued the following statement:
“Matt has extraordinary talent and an unwavering commitment to the public
interest. [...]

March 11, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kamilla Kovacs
202.454.5685
press@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON – Federal Communications Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker announced today that she will be leaving the Commission on June 3, 2011, to begin a position at Comcast’s Washington office.
The following statement can be attributed to Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Senior Vice President and Policy Director of Media Access [...]

March 11, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Kamilla Kovacs, Media Access Project
571.426.0466
press@mediaaccess.org
Karlos Gauna Schmieder, Center for Media Justice
510.698.3800 x402
karlos@centerformediajustice.org
WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, Media Access Project (MAP) filed reply comments, on behalf of member organizations of the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net), regarding the FCC’s proposal to reform the Universal Service Fund’s Lifeline and Link Up [...]

May 10, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kamilla Kovacs
202.454.5685
press@mediaaccess.org
WASHINGTON – Microsoft today announced its intention to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion. Microsoft’s statements tout the benefits of the acquisition for individual and business users of real-time video and voice communications.
Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Senior Vice President and Policy Director of Media Access Project, issued the following statement in [...]

April 25, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kamilla Kovacs
202.454.5685
press@mediaaccess.org
MEDIA ADVISORY
What: Matt Wood, Associate Director of Media Access Project, will present at a spectrum policy workshop organized by the Federal Communications Commission entitled “Interoperability of Customer Mobile Equipment Across Paired Commercial Spectrum Blocks in the 700 MHz Band.”
When: Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 9:00 a.m. [...]