Keynote delivered to the International Symposium of Online Journalists on Friday, April 1, 2022 in Austin, Texas. In 1974, I worked at the Public Broadcasting Service on implementing the first satellite network for delivering television programs to stations across the United States. HBO was on a similar pioneering path. Until…

A look backward at a look forward from 1978 — From 1973 to 1977 I worked at the Public Broadcasting Service in Washington, DC. Interesting times at PBS. The Watergate Hearings began that first summer. PBS aired them gavel-to-gavel incurring the wrath of still-President Nixon. I started as a file clerk, the assistant to the assistant to vice president for…

Or how I became the Queen’s limo driver because I had no choice — In late September Tesla updated the software of my Model S (Performance, 2018) and advised that I now had the option to participate in Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta . …

In 1994 I was working at Apple Computer. We were exploring new online services. This was the time of The Source, Compuserve, America Online and Apple’s own fledgling offering, eWorld. The consumer Internet was just around the corner. In Boulder, Colorado we had a small research group called the Apple…

Keynote delivered to the 75th Assembly of the Society of Inter-American Press. (SIP-IAPA) on Monday, October 7, 2019 in Miami, Florida. Good morning. It’s an honor for me to speak here at the Inter American Press Association 75th General Assembly. SIP has been a relentless guardian for freedom of expression…

Keynote delivered in Bagnaia, Italy on May 25 at “Growing Between the Lines”, a conference presented by the Osservatorio Permanente Giovani-Editori, an intimate gathering of Italian editors and publishers, global media and technology leaders, plus a few hundred accomplished students, the next generation of Italian leadership. One point seven billion…

The open Internet is our First Amendment brought to life. It is a democratic ideal. Anyone and everyone can publicly express themselves to the entire world or the world that matters to them. …

Keynote delivered on June 15, 2016 in Berlin at Zeitung Digital, the conference of BDZV, the federation of German newspaper publishers. I have spent considerable time in Germany over the last several years. Interesting times. Fun times. I’ve made many good friends here even as we sometimes grapple with the…