President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly selected former FCC staffer and IAC/InterActiveCorp executive Julius Genachowski to be the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
Genachowski is already serving on Obama’s transition team and most recently worked as a venture capitalist in Washington.
Genachowski was chief counsel at the FCC under Reed Hundt, who was FCC chairman from 1993 to 1997, and held executive positions at Internet firm IAC/InteractiveCorp.
“Under Julius Genachowski’s leadership, the FCC’s compass would point toward the public interest,” Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, said in a statement. “The challenges facing the next FCC are enormous [and] Genachowski promises to provide the strong leadership we need.”
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