Jeff Chester

Jeff Chester has been an important force in public-interest media issues for more than twenty years. He is one of the nation's leading advocates working on telecommunications issues. In 1996, Newsweek magazine named him one of the Internet's fifty most influential people. His first book, Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy, was released in January 2007. A former investigative reporter and filmmaker, he has long been at the forefront of the fight against consolidation and commercialization of the U.S. media system.