Bartees Cox Exits FCC

Bartees Cox, deputy press secretary at the FCC, has left the commission, FCC press secretary Kim Hart confirms.

Cox left at the end of last week for a job in New York, said Hart.

Before joining the FCC earlier this year, Cox was a spokesman for Public Knowledge, whose founder, Gigi Sohn, joined the FCC a year ago as special counsel for external affairs to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.

Before joining Public Knowledge in 2012, Cox was an intern at Free Press.

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.