Under PRESSure – Legal Protections, Regulations and the Future of Press Publishing: Speaker Bios

Speakers:

Emily Bell

Emily Bell is Founding Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, Leonard Tow professor of Journalism, and a leading thinker, commentator and strategist on digital journalism. The majority of Ms. Bell’s career was spent at Guardian News and Media in London working as an award winning writer and editor both in print and online. As editor-in-chief across Guardian websites and director of digital content for Guardian News and Media, Bell led the web team in pioneering live blogging, multimedia formats, data and social media ahead, making the Guardian a recognized pioneer in the field. She is co-author of Post Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present (2012) with C.W. Anderson and Clay Shirky. Bell is a trustee on the board of the Scott Trust, the owners of The Guardian, a member of Columbia Journalism Review’s board of overseers, an adviser to Tamedia Group in Switzerland, chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Advisory Council on social media, and a member of Poynter’s National Advisory Board.

Andrea Carson

Andrea Carson is a Professor of Political Communication in the Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Her scholarship focuses on investigative journalism, journalism business models, political communication, election campaigns, digital media and fake news. Her 2020 book examines the future of evidence-based reporting: Investigative journalism, democracy and the digital age. She has written extensively about fake news (mis and disinformation) and government regulation and works with Facebook and Google to address this global problem. She holds a PhD in Political Science and a Master of Arts in International Politics from University of Melbourne. She has taught courses on journalism, political communication, women in politics, and campaigns and elections. She is a trained journalist and worked as a reporter and section editor at The Age in Melbourne from 1997-2001 and as a radio broadcaster (RRR) and radio and television producer (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2005-2010) She has a new book out in November 2022 about journalism ethics, Undercover Reporting, Deception, and Betrayal in Journalism with Routledge (London).

Andrew Foglia

Andrew Foglia is Senior Counsel for Policy and International Affairs in the United States Copyright Office. The Office of Policy and International Affairs provides support and technical advice to Congress and also represents the Copyright Office at meetings of government officials concerned with the international aspects of copyright protection and enforcement.  Mr. Foglia’s domestic portfolios include artificial intelligence, the Office’s study of copyright protections for press publishers, and projects following on from the Office’s Section 512 Study.  He also leads the Office’s international portfolios covering South Asia, Canada, and Mexico.

Prior to joining the Copyright Office, Mr. Foglia practiced for five years in Winston & Strawn’s Copyright, Media, and Technology group.  His practice focused on DMCA and mass-infringement cases. Foglia was named to Best Lawyers’ 2021 “Ones to Watch” list.  He clerked for Judge William H. Pauley III in the Southern District of New York and Michael A. Chagares on the Third Circuit.  Mr. Foglia graduated magna cum laude from Duke Law in 2013, where he was an R.C. Mordecai Scholar and a member of the Order of the Coif.  He received his B.A. from Davidson College in 2009.

Lisa George

Lisa M. George is an empirical applied economist specializing in industrial organization and political economy.  Her research focuses on the economics of media markets, spanning traditional and new media. Professor George has published in top economics journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy and Journal of Industrial Economics.

Professor George currently serves as editor-in-chief of the economics journal Information Economics and Policy and as a member of the scientific committee of the EU Media Pluralism Project at the Florence School of Regulation.  She co-organizes the annual Media Economics Workshop and the monthly New York City Media Seminar.  She has managed public and private grants and awards for research in media economics, including a 2011 award from the Time Warner Cable Research Program in Digital Communications to study the role of intermediaries in local news markets and a 2010 Federal Communications Commission grant to study diversity in television news.

Professor George completed her Ph.D. in Applied Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.  She also earned a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Engineering degree from Cornell University. She has served in the past as a Visiting Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and an Assistant Professor of Economics at Michigan State University.  Before embarking on doctoral studies, Professor George served five years as an officer in the US Navy.

Ariel Katz

Ariel Katz is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Professor Katz received his LL.B. and LL.M from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his SJD from the University of Toronto. His general area of research involves economic analysis of competition law and intellectual property law, with allied interests in electronic commerce, pharmaceutical regulation, the regulation of international trade, and particularly the intersection of these fields. Between 2009 and 2012 Professor Katz was the Director of the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy. Prior to joining the University of Toronto Professor Katz was a staff attorney at the Israeli Antitrust Authority. While there, he litigated several merger appeals and restrictive arrangements cases before the Antitrust Tribunal and negotiated regulatory settlements. Professor Katz currently teaches courses on intellectual property, cyberlaw, and the intersection of competition law and intellectual property, and shares some of his current thoughts on these issues on his blog.

Neil Netanel

Neil Netanel is the Pete Kameron Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. Prof. Netanel teaches and writes in the areas of copyright, free speech, international intellectual property, and social media and the future of democracy. His recent books include Copyright's Paradox (Oxford University Press, 2008); The Development Agenda: Global Intellectual Property and Developing Countries (Neil Weinstock Netanel ed., Oxford University Press, 2008); From Maimonides to Microsoft: The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print (Oxford University Press, 2016); and Copyright: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Dana Scherer

Dana Scherer is a Specialist in Telecommunications Policy at the non-partisan Congressional Research Service. Ms. Scherer provides public policy research, analysis, and confidential consultations exclusively to member of the U.S. Congress. Her work focuses on media, music, entertainment, and technology industry developments, including the intersection of economics, copyright, antitrust, and communications laws and policies.  Prior to joining CRS, Ms. Scherer was an economist and policy analyst at the Federal
Communications Commission, where, among other responsibilities, she helped review several transformative media and telecommunications mergers and acquisitions, including during her detail in the Antitrust Division at the US Department of Justice. In addition, Ms. Scherer was a project manager and research analyst for Univision Communications Inc. in its broadcast television and online media divisions.

Ms. Scherer earned an MBA at Columbia Business School and a bachelor’s
degree in economics from Macalester College. She is currently president of the Library of
Congress Toastmasters Club.

Hal Singer

Hal Singer is an expert in antitrust, consumer protection, and regulation. He has researched, published, and testified on competition-related issues in a wide variety of industries, including media, pharmaceuticals, sports, and finance. He has extensive experience providing expert economic and policy advice to regulatory agencies in the United States and Canada, as well as before Congressional committees.

Dr. Singer is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business, where he teaches advanced pricing to MBA candidates. In 2018, the American Antitrust Institute honored Dr. Singer with an antitrust enforcement award for his work in the Lidoderm antitrust litigation.

Colin Stretch

Colin Stretch is Of Counsel at Latham & Watkins LLP.  Mr. Stretch previously served as General Counsel of Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms, Inc.), where he was responsible for the company’s legal and compliance functions as well as corporate legal affairs. Mr. Stretch joined the company in 2010 and during his time there worked on matters ranging from litigation over the company’s founding to the IPO and its aftermath; from major regulatory investigations in the US and abroad to congressional testimony relating to foreign interference in the 2016 election; from the acquisitions of Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus to the implementation of major privacy legislation in Europe.

From 2020-2021, Mr. Stretch was Leader-in-Residence at Columbia Law and Business Schools’ Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership, where he taught classes on the Role of the General Counsel in the Modern Economy and Internet Platforms: Law and Responsibility. He continues to serve as a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School and is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Columbia Business School.

Earlier in his career Mr. Stretch clerked for US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and he was an Honors Program attorney in the US Justice Department’s Antitrust Division.

Edouard Treppoz

Edouard Treppoz is Professor at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne where he mainly teaches intellectual property law. His research interests include intellectual property and international and European law with a particular focus on private international intellectual property law. As a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School in 2014, he co-authored with Professor Jane C. Ginsburg a case book, International Copyright Law - US and EU Perspectives. He is the author of numerous articles, as well as a recognized speaker in France and abroad on these issues.