NAB's Smith Chairs Free Speech Week Advisory Council

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National Association of Broadcasters president Gordon Smith will chair the advisory council for the 2015 Free Speech Week (Oct. 19-25). He has been a member of the council since 2013.

“We are honored to have such a strong First Amendment advocate heading the FSW Advisory Council,” said Patrick Maines, president of the Media Institute, which oversees the annual celebration of speech.

Other members of the advisory council are Charles (“Chip”) Deale, executive director, National Press Photographers Association; Senator Chris Dodd, chairman, Motion Picture Association of America; George Freeman, executive director, Media Law Resource Center; Caroline Little, president, Newspaper Association of America; Walter B. McCormick, Jr., president, United States Telecom Association; and Michael Powell, president, National Cable & Telecommunications Association.

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.