This week on "The Communicators", longtime Amazon executives Colin Bryar and Bill Carr talk about their book "Working Backwards" which breaks down the online retailer's approach to culture and leadership.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ellen Pao, founder and CEO of Project Include, discussed the organization’s efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in the tech industry. She took questions from Marketwatch technology reporter, Levi Sumagaysay. Project Include is a non-profit diversity consulting organization. Ms. Pao is the former interim CEO of Reddit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Randolph May of the Free State Foundation and Harold Feld of Public Knowledge discussed free speech and censorship on social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah Frier, author of No Filter, discusses the growth of Instagram and its effect on social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on "The Communicators", Washington, DC-based tech reporters discuss what lies ahead for the tech and telecommunications industries in 2021, including anti-trust cases, potential changes under the Biden administration, and issues of data privacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week’s Communicators, we spoke with outgoing FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, a conversation with Allen Pratt we first brought you on October 24. Allen Pratt, director of the National Rural Education Association, talked the impact on rural students of online learning in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic. Many students deal with sometimes nonexistent, sometimes too expensive internet access, and schools were looking for creative options. David Crothers, director of the Broadband Association of North Dakota, also briefly joined the conversation to discuss why...

Harvard Medical School Professor Dr. Joseph Kvedar, president of the American Telemedicine Association, talked about the role of telemedicine as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. This episode is from earlier this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zoom's Head of Global Public Policy, Josh Kallmer, talked about the video conferencing company's growth during the Covid-19 pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on “The Communicators", journalist and author James Ball discusses his book "The Tangled Web We Weave” about the history of the internet and the contemporary problems he sees today, including privacy, ownership, and monopoly power. James Ball is the Global Editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amy Peikoff, Chief Policy Officer for Parler, discussed the new social media platform and how it differs from Facebook and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer discussed the unorthodox workplace culture behind one of the largest tech companies in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on "The Communicators", we look at some of the smaller phone, broadband, and video providers and the issues they face. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on "The Communicators", Washington, DC-based tech reporters discussed the ways the outcomes of the 2020 election will affect the tech and telecommunications industries, including data privacy, social media, and the FCC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President of the American Telemedicine Association Dr. Joseph Kvedar talks about the growth of the telemedicine industry during the pandemic.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MIT Professor Daniel Weitzner talks about artificial intelligence & the coronavirus, as well as security and privacy issues that have grown this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How rural students are going to school in 2020 - many are learning online but access to internet in their homes is sometimes nonexistent, sometimes too expensive, & schools are looking for creative options. The director of the National Rural Education Association, Allen Pratt, talks with Education Week reporter Alyson Klein about these issues. The director of the Broadband Association of North Dakota, David Crothers, also discusses why that state has successfully made internet connection...

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr (R) talked about the Section 230 Executive Order and free speech on the internet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Communicators talks with Charlie Mitchell, author of Cyber in the Age of Trump. He discusses cybersecurity efforts by the Trump Administration. Mr. Mitchell also looks at how Presidents Trump and Obama compare on cyber policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two technology leaders discuss the big tech issues in 2020 & the role of these issues in Campaign 2020. Jessica Gonzalez, Free Press Co-CEO, and Berin Szoka, TechFreedom Founder & Senior Fellow, examine these tech issues on The Communicators. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter (D) talks about privacy issues, access to broadband and the impact on Black and Hispanic families, and antitrust policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Federal Trade Commissioner Noah Phillips (R) talks about privacy, competition, antitrust policy regarding technology broadly and scams against the public during the coronavirus pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings and business professor Erin Meyer discussed the unorthodox workplace culture behind one of the largest tech companies in the world in their book “No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Theresa Payton, a cybersecurity firm CEO, discusses her book, “Manipulated: Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth.” Ms. Payton was White House Chief Information Officer for Pres. George W. Bush. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX), a former cybersecurity analyst and CIA officer, talks about cyber issues facing the U.S., artificial intelligence, and says China wants to surpass the U.S. as a superpower by focusing on future technologies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices