Communications and Society Program

FOCAS 2007 Participant List

Final Participant List

 

Jonathan Adelstein
Commissioner
Federal Communications Commission

Madeleine Albright
Principal
The Albright Group

Jonathan Alter
Senior Editor
Newsweek

Arturo Artom
President and CEO
Your Truman Show

Stephen Balkam
Chief Executive Officer
Fmily Online Safety Institute

Howard Berman
United States House of Representatives

Teymour Bourtros-Ghali
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Monitor Ventures

John H. Clippinger
Senior Fellow
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School

Jeffrey I. Cole
Director, Center for the Digital Future
USC Annenberg School

Stephen Collins
Actor and Writer

Geoffrey Cowan
Dean Emeritus and Annenberg Family Chair
in Communication Leadership
USC Annenberg School for Communication

 

Monica Desai
Media Bureau Chief
Federal Communications Commission

Jon Diamond
Chief Executive Officer
ARTISTdirect

Esther Dyson
Chief Executive Officer
EDventure Holdings

Michael Eric Dyson
Univesity Professor
Georgetown University

Michael Eisner
Former Chairman and CEO
The Walt Disney Company
and
Founder
The Tornante Company

 

Tucker Eskew
Founding Partner
ViaNovo, LP

Charles M. Firestone
Executive Director
Communications and Society Program
The Aspen Institute

Ze Frank
Founder
zefrank.com

Michael Gallagher
President
Entertainment Software Association

Julius Genachowski
Co-founder and Managing Director
Rock Creek Ventures

Lev Gonick
Chief Information Officer and Vice President
for Information Services
Case Western University

Kevin Greenberg
Shareholder
Flaster/ Greenberg P.C.

Jordan Greenhall
Chairman and Co-Founder
DivX, Inc.

James A. Guest
President and Chief Executive Officer
Consumer’s Union

Leslie Harris
President and CEO
Center for Democracy and Technology

John Hart
President and Chief Executive Officer
American Democracy Institute

Scott Heiferman
Chief Executive Officer
meetup.com

Peter Hirshberg
Chairman and Chief Marketing Officer
Technorati

Arianna Huffington
Co-founder and Editor-in-chief
The Huffington Post

Reed E. Hundt
Senior Advisor
McKinsey & Company

Alberto Ibargüen
President and Chief Executive Officer
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Walter Isaacson
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Aspen Institute

Henry Jenkins
Director, Comparative Media Studies Program
and
Full Professor of Literature
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Michael Klein
Chairman
The Sunlight Foundation

Eric Klinenberg
Associate Professor of Sociology
New York University

William H. Kling
President and Chief Executive Officer
American Public Media

Andrew Kohut
President
The People and the Press
Pew Research Center

Stacey Lawson
Co-Founder and Industry Fellow
Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology
University of California, Berkeley

Caroline Little
Chief Executive Officer and Publisher
Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive

Mark Lloyd
Senior Fellow
Center for American Progress

Michael Lomax
President and Chief Executive Officer
United Negro College Fund, Inc.

Kevin Martin
Chairman
Federal Communications Commission

JorgeMartinez
Director of Information Systems
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Marissa Mayer
Vice President, Search Products and User Experience
Google

Scott Moore
Head of News andOperation
Yahoo!

Marc Nathanson
Vice Chair
National Democratic Institute For International Affairs (NDI)
and
Vice Chair
Charter Communications

Chris Neimeth
Publisher
Salon Media Group

 

Craig Newmark
Founder and Customer ServiceRepresentative
Craigslist

Eric Newton
Vice President, Journalism Program
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

John J. Oliver , Jr.
Publisher and Chief Executive Officer
Afro-American Newspaper

Cory Ondrejka
Chief Technology Officer
Linden Lab (Second Life)

John Van Oudenaren
Senior Advisor for World Digital Library
The Library of Congress

Noah Pepper
Student
Reed College

Robert Pepper
Senior Managing Director
Global Advanced Technology Policy
Cisco Systems

Viviane Reding
Commissioner for Information Society and Media
European Commission

John Rendon
President
The Rendon Group

Lynda Resnick
Co-Owner and Vice-Chairman
Roll International Corporation

Elspeth Revere
Vice President of the General Program
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation

Graham A. Richard
Mayor
City of Fort Wayne, Indiana

Kevin Ryan
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
ShopWiki

William Dean Singleton
Vice Chairman and CEO
MediaNews Group, Inc.

Eric H. Smith
Managing Partner
Smith, Strong & Schlesinger LLP

Jeff Smulyan
CEOand Chairman of the Board
Emmis Communications

Gigi Sohn
President & Founder
Public Knowledge

Christopher Solmssen
Director
Credit Suisse Corporation

Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.
Chairman
The New York Times Company and
Publisher
The New York Times

Heath Terry
Director
Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation

Charles Annenberg Weingarten
Trustee
The Annenberg Foundation

Tracy Westen
Chief Executive Officer
Center for Governmental Studies

Rapporteurs:

Roundtable A: Content Issues for New and Old Media

Drew Clark
Senior Fellow & Project Manager
Telecommunications and Media
Center for Public Integrity

Roundtable B: Media and Community Values

Richard Adler
President
People and Technology

Roundtable C: Media and Property Values

Kathleen Wallman
Senior Advisor
The Brattle Group

 

Contact

For sponsorship and participant opportunities regarding FOCAS 2008, please contact Ms. Erin Silliman at the Communications and Society Program at 1-202-736-5818 or by email at erin.silliman@aspeninstitute.org.