Benton and TPRC Celebrate 5 years of Charles Benton Early Career Scholar Awards

This year, the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society celebrates our 40th year of protecting democratic values and championing a communications system that works for everyone. Our values of access, equity, and diversity remain the same. But we’ve advanced our mission with the times. We began as an institution focused on the public interest issues raised by emerging communications technologies and on championing long-term public policy solutions to address these issues. We’re now focused on the dominant communications platform of our day: ensuring fast, fair, open broadband for all. Today we celebrate Benton’s collaboration with TPRC. In the five years since Charles Benton’s death, TPRC and the Benton Institute have partnered on a shared passion: encouraging new voices and views in the areas of broadband adoption and digital inclusion. At his core, Charles was a lifelong learner and educator. And he was passionate about connecting scholars with practitioners and policymakers. In creating the Charles Benton Early Career Scholar Award, Benton and TPRC have strived to highlight research excellence and insight that together can help more people understand their stake in communications policy.