Barbara Wall Elected to Board of The Media Institute

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Barbara Wall, VP and associate general counsel for Gannett in Washington, has been elected to the board of The Media Institute, the think tank backed by major media companies to focus on First Amendment issues.

Wall succeeds Kurt Wimmer, who exited Gannett in April to re-join Covington & Burling LLP as a partner in its Washington office. Wimmer remains on the board of the institute.

According to Institute president Patrick Maines, Wall has lectured and written about First Amendment issues, Internet law and intellectual property rights, and is past chair of the American Bar Association's Forum on Communications Law. She also teaches as an adjunct professor at American University and George Washington.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.