Knight Fellows

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Sasha Costanza-Chock is a researcher and mediamaker who works on the political economy of communication and on the transnational movement for media justice and communication rights. He holds a BA from Harvard University and an MA from the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles, where he helps grassroots immigrant rights organizations create stronger popular communication strategies.

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Kat Aaron is a writer and project manager at the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University. Before joining the IRW, she was a staff writer at the Center for Public Integrity, where she did investigative reporting on financial and economic issues.

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Sean McLaughlin is an educator, media access advocate and non-profit executive. In July 2006, McLaughlin became the first executive director for Access Humboldt a community media organization providing local access channels, broadband network connections, digital media production resources, training and support for local governments, tribes, educational institutions, non-profit organizations and all residents of Humboldt County, California USA.

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Jessica Clark directs the Center for Social Media’s Future of Public Media project, and is a Scholar in Residence at American University’s School of Communication. The co-author of Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media, (The New Press, 2010), she is a Knight Media Policy Fellow at the New America Foundation.

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As a part-time fellow with the Knight Media Policy Initiative, C.W. Anderson brings his expertise on changes within local journalistic ecosystems to bear on questions of media policy in the digital age. During over a decade of ethnographic research on local news production, Anderson has charted new forms of journalistic work, has analyzed and the possibilities of -- and barriers to -- institutional collaboration, and has cataloged new forms of journalistic work.

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Philip M. Napoli (Ph.D., Northwestern University) is a Professor of Communications and Media Management in the Graduate School of Business, and Director of the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University in New York. He is also a Docent in the Department of Communication at the University of Helsinki and the Series Editor for the Everette C. Parker Communications Policy Book Series, a collaboration of the McGannon Center and Fordham University Press. 

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Jessica Durkin is the founder of InOtherNews.us, a directory of online, independent news start-ups in the United States. Ms. Durkin's interests lie in media reform and examining local news alternatives to traditional media. Ms. Durkin comes from a print journalism background. She is on the board of directors for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and lives in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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As a Knight Media Policy Fellow at New America, Tom Glaisyer coordinates the Media Policy Program at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative.  Through tracking media policy initiatives at the federal level, and innovative efforts in local communities across the country, Glaisyer reports on the successes and failures, along with their implications for the recommendations from the Knight Commission's recently published report, "Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age,” which focused on ensuring communities nationwide are better informed.