- Nicholas Johnson
- Visiting Professor
- College of Law, University of Iowa
- past Commissioner of the
- Federal Communications Commission
- Visiting Professor
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Tuesday, February 1, 2000
Public Lecture "Media Regulation in the Age of the Internet" Institute of the Americas at UCSD, Copley Auditorium 4:00-5:00pm | Thursday, February 3, 2000
Breakfast Symposium with San Diego community leaders "Free Speech, Profitable Speech and the Future of the Internet" UCSD Faculty Club 7:30-9:00am $35/person, RSVP Required - (See Details Below) |
With respondents:
Robert Bingham, founder, Simple Network Communications
$35 per person. Please make check payable to UC Regents
Parking included
BIO SUMMARY: Nicholas Johnson
SUMMARY AND HIGHLIGHTS: This resume reflects the variety of Johnson's
roles as: an academic; government official; public interest advocate;
administrator, manager and corporate representative; writer, lecturer,
TV and radio performer; politician; lawyer; and computer and
telecommunications policy specialist.
Among many other things Johnson teaches law, travels widely, is a
columnist and public lecturer, school board member, computer enthusiast,
and fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He has formerly
served as co-director of a public health public policy institute,
network TV host, congressional candidate, author of books and a
nationally syndicated column, FCC Commissioner, and law clerk to U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black.
He was born in Iowa City, Iowa, in 1934, the son of Wendell and Edna
Johnson. He has now returned from Washington, D.C., to Iowa City, where
he lives with his wife, Mary Vasey. They have six children, five
grandchildren, a great granddaughter and a cat.
For more information, see Nicholas Johnson's webpages:
Breakfast Symposium Details
Introduced by:
Neil Derrough
former President, NBC channel 7/39 and
President, N.E.D. Enterprises
Guylyn Remmenga Cummins, Gray, Cary, Ware & Freidenrich LLP
Robert Horwitz, UCSD Department of Communication
Dan Schiller, UCSD Department of Communication