Media Access Project Announces New President Tyrone Brown

Media Access Project announced that on April 1, Tyrone Brown, former Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission and an entrepreneurial attorney, will succeed Andrew Jay Schwartzman as President of MAP, the nonprofit, public interest communications law firm. Schwartzman, who has headed MAP for three decades, will continue as Senior Vice President and Policy Director.

Brown has extensive experience resulting from a long and diverse career in communications law and industry. He came to Washington as a law clerk for the late Chief Justice Earl Warren, and served as FCC Commissioner during the Carter Administration. Since leaving the government, he has interspersed communications law practice at major DC law firms, including Wiley Rein and Steptoe & Johnson, with business ventures. He participated in telecommunications and media start-ups, including the co-founding of DC's first cable television system. He also collaborated on the successful re-launch after bankruptcy of IRIDIUM, the global mobile satellite system, serving as IRIDIUM's vice chairman. Early in his career, he was an in-house counsel at Post-Newsweek Stations, the broadcast station operations of the Washington Post Company. Recently, he taught ethics to journalism students at Duke University.
"The transition in leadership will allow me to dedicate my full attention to the communications policy work that I love," said Mr Schwartzman.