Craig Aaron of freepress.net will make a presentation sponsored by All-Souls and Friends of Community Media on February 6th at 10 AM via Zoom. Credentials will follow in a future post. Here is his biographical sketch.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH – CRAIG AARON
Craig Aaron, who will be speaking on a Kansas City Zoom presentation February 6th at 6:00 PM CST sponsored by Friends of Community Media and the All-Souls Forum, has been a leader in the efforts to improve democracy in media for many years.
For more than 15 years since 2011, with his leadership with Free Press and Free Press Action, he has led national campaigns to safeguard net neutrality, stop media consolidation, oppose unchecked surveillance, defend community media, and support quality journalism. In his work in Washington he speaks often to policymakers on media and technology issues.
A prolific author, he has written for The Columbia Journalism Review, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Huffington Post, MSNBC, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Politico, The Progressive, The Seattle Times, Slate and many other news outlets. Craig was also a yearlong fellow from 2018-19 at the Rockwood Leadership Institute and sits on the advisory board of the Media, Inequality, and Change Center.
Before joining Free Press, he was an investigative reporter for Public Citizen’s Congress Watch and managing editor of In These Times Magazine. He is the editor of two books, Appeal to Reason: 25 Years of In These Times; and Changing Media: Public Interest Policies for the Digital Age. Mr. Aaron is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism of Northwestern University.
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