The Communicators

Research analyst Michael Nathanson discussed how consumers are receiving media and cable in the pandemic and the effects it has had on media and the internet.

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This week on "The Communicators", longtime Amazon executives Colin Bryar and Bill Carr talk about their book "Working Backwards" which breaks down the online retailer's approach to culture and leadership. 

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Ellen Pao, founder and CEO of Project Include, discussed the organization’s efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in the tech industry. She took questions from Marketwatch technology reporter, Levi Sumagaysay. Project Include is a non-profit diversity consulting organization. Ms. Pao is the former interim CEO of Reddit.

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Randolph May of the Free State Foundation and Harold Feld of Public Knowledge discussed free speech and censorship on social media.

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Sarah Frier, author of No Filter, discusses the growth of Instagram and its effect on social media.

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This week on "The Communicators", Washington, DC-based tech reporters discuss what lies ahead for the tech and telecommunications industries in 2021, including anti-trust cases, potential changes under the Biden administration, and issues of data privacy.

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On this week’s Communicators, we spoke with outgoing FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.

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This week, a conversation with Allen Pratt we first brought you on October 24. Allen Pratt, director of the National Rural Education Association, talked the impact on rural students of online learning in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic. Many students deal with sometimes nonexistent, sometimes too expensive internet access, and schools were looking for creative options. David Crothers, director of the Broadband Association of North Dakota, also briefly joined the conversation to discuss why that state had successfully made internet connection possible for almost all students. 

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Harvard Medical School Professor Dr. Joseph Kvedar, president of the American Telemedicine Association, talked about the role of telemedicine as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. This episode is from earlier this year.

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Zoom's Head of Global Public Policy, Josh Kallmer, talked about the video conferencing company's growth during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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