Jeff Chester

Jeff Chester is executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy (www.democraticmedia.org), a Washington, DC-based nonprofit. He is the author of Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy (The New Press).

Currently

  • House Panel Shoots Down Net Neutrality

    April 27, 2006

    Despite pressure from Internet mavens, Congress edged closer this week to a pay-as-you-go Internet.

  • Key House Panel Votes to Kill Community TV

    April 24, 2006

    A key House committee--with the support of many Democrats--has approved a measure that eliminates the last remaining government policy insuring local oversight on communications companies.

  • Google's Wi-Fi Privacy Ploy

    March 24, 2006

    Google and other telecom giants are wooing cities with plans to create public Wi-Fi grids. But there's no such thing as a free digital lunch: The price we pay is a loss of online privacy.

  • The End of the Internet?

    February 1, 2006

    Telephone and cable companies are crafting strategies to transform the free and open Internet to a privately run service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online. Can we stop them?

2004

  • ABC's Digital Convention Scam

    August 25, 2004

    ABC will cover the GOP convention precisely as it covered the Democratic event--by largely ignoring it.

2003

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Blogs

» The Notion

Palin as the Church Lady | Going Rogue book tour brings passive-aggressive rightwing Christianity to the fore.
Leslie Savan
43 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | The "Second Amendment" sale; the raving paranoids of the right.
Eric Alterman

» Editor's Cut

An Alternative to Escalation in Afghanistan | President Obama is expected to make a decision regarding his Afghanistan strategy after Thanksgiving.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
53 Comments

» The Beat

House Rebels Force Fed Audit, Real Economy Onto Agenda | Frank's Financial Services Committee becomes focal point for revolts by members who worry about powerful banks and unemployment.
John Nichols
28 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

Chongqing: Socialism in One City | China is managing the most important event in the world: the urbanization of half a billion people. Fast.
Robert Dreyfuss
204 Comments

» Act Now!

Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
Peter Rothberg
59 Comments