FCC Names Director of Digital Learning

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

FCC chairman Julius Genachowski has named Michael Steffen
director of digital learning, heading up the FCC's effort to update broadband in
schools and libraries.

The commission is the largest funder of K-12 digital
literacy education in the country, according to the FCC.

Steffen has been the chairman's legal adviser on
wireline, international and Internet policy issues, but Genachowski has
announced he will be leaving the commission, likely in the next few weeks.

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.