Two Think Minimum

Maureen Ohlhausen is currently Practice Group Chair and Partner of Antitrust and Competition Law at Baker Botts in Washington, D.C. Alan Raul is founder and lead partner of Sidley Austin's Privacy and Cybersecurity practice in Washington, D.C. We last saw you on a privacy panel we hosted at the National Press Club on January 16th, earlier this year. It's now late February 2019 and this week Congress is holding hearings on federal data privacy. Here's the big question: Will there be privacy legislation this year?

Hi, and welcome to TPI’s podcast, Two Think Minimum. Today is Tuesday, October 30th, 2018, and I'm Scott Wallsten, president and senior fellow of the Technology Policy Institute, here with Tom Lenard, senior fellow and president emeritus of TPI. We'll be chatting with Mitch Glazier, who is president of the Recording Industry Association of America, and David Israelite, President and CEO of the National Music Publishers Association. Thanks for joining us. It’s an exciting time for music policy with the Music Modernization Act finally becoming law.

Welcome back to TPI’s Podcast Two Think Minimum. It's Monday, October 29th, 2018. We're excited to talk with Patrick Warren, who has a Ph.D. in economics from MIT and is now an Associate Professor of Economics at Clemson University. Patrick has become a leading authority on the impact of Internet trolls on elections, which is obviously of huge importance as we head into the midterms. His work is based on a data set of about 3 million troll tweets that he and his coauthor Darren Linvill downloaded and have made available to everyone via the FiveThirtyEight website. We'll talk about this and more on today's podcast.

Today we're excited to talk with Victoria Graham. She is an antitrust and corporate crime reporter for Bloomberg Law in Washington, covering news and trends with the Justice Department, Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission. Victoria’s antitrust coverage also extends into private litigation matters including antitrust suits against the NCAA and employee class actions involving employer no poach agreements. Ms. Graham received her B.A. in media studies and government from the University of Virginia.

We sat down with Wall Street analyst, and TPI board member, Laura Martin, to talk about the changing media landscape. As it turned out, we had only about 15 minutes, which we used talking about Netflix. Still, given that Netflix had announced its earnings only the day previously, the conversation was interesting and illuminating. So enjoy this relatively short episode of Two Think Minimum and the somewhat abrupt ending, and we'll have Laura back soon for a fuller discussion.

Today we're excited to talk with Ina Fried of Axios, a tech journalist who covers telecom policy. Ina writes the daily newsletter for Axios that many of our listeners may read each morning. According to her twitter account, she is Chief Technology Correspondent for Axios and former Senior Editor at Recode.

Hi and welcome back to TPI’s podcast, Two Think Minimum. It's Thursday, June 7th, 2018, and I'm TPI Research Fellow, Sarah Oh. Today we're excited to talk with two of the most knowledgeable journalists covering telecom policy, Jonathan Make and David Kaut, from Communications Daily. Jonathan is the editor of Communications Daily and in his spare time is president of the Society of Professional Journalists DC Pro Chapter. He has covered media, business and policy for most of his journalism career. He blogs at medium.com/@makeJDM and tweets @makejdm. David Kaut has been senior editor/reporter at Communications Daily since May of 2015. Before that he was a communications policy analyst at Legg Mason and Stifel Nicolaus from 2001 to 2014 and the telecom media beat reporter at BNA Daily Report for Executives from 1996 to 2001. I am joined today by Scott Wallsten, TPI Senior Fellow and President who will start off our conversation on the never ending story, net neutrality, and the related continuing resolution in Congress and whether Congress will ever get to bipartisan legislation.

Today we have with us Rob Pegoraro, who is a tech journalist of long standing in the DC area and has been covering technology and the intersection of technology and politics, for close to about 20 years now, if not longer. We're happy to have him with us, given that he's one of Washingtonian’s Tech Titans from 2015 to 2017. He would be the perfect guest to have in to talk about the evolution of tech in DC over the past 10 years because TPI is also celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.

Today we continue our conversation with special guest, Professor Thomas Hazlett. Professor Hazlett is the H.H. Macauley Endowed Professor of Economics at Clemson University. He will talk about his book, The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone, published by Yale University Press.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of TPI’s podcast Two Think Minimum. I’m Chris McGurn TPI’s Director of Communications. This week, we're fortunate to be talking with Maja Brkan, who is an Assistant Professor in European Law on the faculty of law at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Maja also has the distinction of being part of our AI conference which was held earlier this week. We will be discussing with her some of the issues that she covered and presented in her paper, which is entitled, Do Algorithms Rule the World? Algorithmic Decision Making and Data Protection in the Framework of the GDPR and Beyond.