Fwd: Schwartzman

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From: bmccloskey@warren-news.com
To: bmcclos325@aol.com
Sent: 2/18/2014
2:29:05 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
Subj: Schwartzman

 

Public interest attorney and former Media Access
Project head Andrew Schwartzman will join Georgetown’s Institute for Public
Representation (IPR) to lead the new Public Interest Communications Law
Project, Schwartzman said in a release Tuesday.  The project is a joint
creation of The Benton Foundation and Georgetown Law School, and Schwartzman
will be Benton Senior Counselor, funded through grants from The Alphawood
Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Media Democracy Fund, the release
said.  Schwartzman’s appointment will “expand IPR’s capacity to provide
public representation in  such critical areas as the transition of
traditional wireline telephone service to broadband (known “the IP
transition”), Universal Service Fund reform, particularly of Lifeline and
E-Rate, Diversity of Media Ownership and Spectrum Policy,” he said. 
Schwartzman will be able to continue as senior advisor to other D.C.-based
public interest groups, along with his private law practice, the release
said.  “I have long sought to help create a new generation of
public interest advocates able to promote the public’s First Amendment rights
to have access to a diverse and vigorous debate on important issues,” said
Schwartzman.  “This position is an ideal way to continue and extend that
mission.”