Filmmaker

• OFF-HOLLYWOOD: The Making and Marketing of Independent Films (Grove Press).

• News & Analysis for Indie Makers at Filmmaker magazine
  
  • September 2013: Equity Crowdfunding
    
  • September 2013: Film Festivals & the Future of Streaming
  • August 2013:  An End to the First-Sale for Movies?
  • August 2013:  In the Age of Digital Disruption, What is a Movie?
  • July 2013:  Will “Unbundling” Kill Cable?
  • July 2013:  Amazon Studios Ups the Ante in the Content Wars
  • June 2013:  VOD Wars Heat Up
  • May 2013: What Indie Filmmakers Need to Know About Mobile Video Viewing
  • May 2013: Will Tom Wheeler Kill Net Neutrality?
  • April 2013:  Just How Healthy Is Independent Film Distribution?
  • April 2013:  YouTube’s Aggressive Move into Original Content
  • March 2013: At CPAC, Republicans Rev Up Conservatives Cinema
  • March 2013: Six Strikes & Your Out
  • February 2013: Opportunity for Indies?
  • February 2013: Neutralizing Net Neutrality
  • January 2013: Video Streaming & Indies
  • January 2013: Will Data Caps Kill Indie Film?
  • December 2012: Internet Alternatives
  • December 2012: Murdock’s Media Monopoly
  • November 2012: Will Comcast Get Disney?
    
  • November 2012: VOD for Indies
  • October 2012: Encrypting Basic TV
  • October 2012: Pay to View
  • September 2012: Another Web is Possible
  • September 2012: The Screen Matters
  • August 2012: Google Fiber
  • August 2012: What’s Happening, Mr. Jones
  • July 2012: Film Business Shrinking
  • July 2012:  Cell Phone Policing
  • June 2012: Artful Dodgers
  • June 2012: Personal Democracy
  • May 2012: Is Crowdfunding for You?
  • May 2012: The New Hollywood
  • April 2012: What Privacy?
  • April 2012: Cable Woes
  • April 2012: Digital Prints & the Hollywood Shuffle
  • March 2012: Are Your Being Throttled?
  • March 2012: Aereo & the New TV Wars
  • February 2012: Bruised Apple
  • February 2012: Broadband Failure
  • January 2012: At Your Own Peril
  • January 2011: End of Cross-Ownership Rules?

• December 2011: Your Should Be Paranoid
• December 2011: Your TV Future
• December 2011: The Shell Game
• November 2011: The IP Wars
• November 2011: Is Net Neutrality Dead?
• November 2011: AT&T Merger Update
• October 2011: The IFP Market
• September 2011:  Remembering 9/11
• August 2011: The Big Squeeze

• Social TV Summits: 5 Takeaways for Factual TV, December 28, 2011.

• 5 Takeaways from IFP’s Independent Film Week, DocumentaryTelevision, September 25, 2011.

• TV Wars:  Indies & Internet Distribution, Filmmaker Magazine, Spring 2011.

• The Tea Party Propaganda Factory You Probably Don’t Know About, AlterNet, April 20, 2011.

• How Does the Drug Industry Get Away with Broadcasting Those Deceptive Ads?AlterNet, February 23, 2011.

• What Publishing Crisis?: User Generated Content &  the Resurrection of Media Publishing, Z Magazine, July-August 2010.

• The New York Times vs. the Pope: A Case of Selective Journalism?, CounterPunch, April 16-18, 2010.

• The New Morality Police: Corporate Censors Flex Their Muscles, CounterPunch, March 5 – 7, 2010.

• The Comcast-NBC Merger & the Future of Internet Video, Z Magazine, March 2010.

• Obama’s First Amendment Challenge? Sexting: the Latest Innovation in Porn, CounterPunch, March 25, 2009.

• Ways of Seeing: Movies on Mobile Devices, FilmInFocus, November 19, 2008.

• The Next Telecom War:  Moving from Net Neutrality to Infrastructure Common Carriage, Filmmaker Magazine, Summer 2008.

• Write On!: The Writers Strike & Intellectual Labor in America, Z Magazine, June 2008.

• Reel Politick: Sundance ’08 & the Contradictions of Independent Media, Z-Magazine, March 2008.