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    Janet Yang Re-elected Motion Picture Academy President

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    Janet Yang
    LOS ANGELES --

    Producer Janet Yang has been re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by the organization’s Board of Governors.

    Also elected to officer positions by the Board:

    –Lesley Barber, VP (chair, Membership Committee)
    –DeVon Franklin, VP (chair, Equity and Inclusion Committee)
    –Donna Gigliotti, VP/treasurer (chair, Finance Committee)
    –Lynette Howell Taylor, VP (chair, Awards Committee)
    –Howard A. Rodman, VP/secretary (chair, Governance Committee)

    “I am thrilled to have Janet return as Academy president for a third term to continue our great work of the past two years,” said Academy CEO Bill Kramer. “I also am so pleased to welcome this year’s incredible slate of dedicated board officers. I look forward to collaborating with our officers and governors to advance the Academy’s mission, serve our global membership, celebrate the work of our international filmmaking community, continue to ensure the financial health of the Academy, and broaden our reach and impact within the industry.”

    Yang is beginning her third term as president and her sixth year as a governor-at-large, a position for which she was nominated by the sitting Academy president and elected by the Board of Governors in 2019 and 2022. Franklin, Howell Taylor and Rodman were re-elected as officers. Gigliotti previously served as an officer. It will be the first officer stint for Barber.

    A member of the Academy’s Producers Branch since 2002, Yang has extensive film producing credits which include “South Central,” “The Joy Luck Club,” “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” “Zero Effect,” “Savior,” “The Weight of Water,” “High Crimes” and the Oscar®-nominated animated feature “Over the Moon.” She won an Emmy® for the HBO film “Indictment: The McMartin Trial.”

    Academy board members may serve up to two three-year terms (consecutive or non-consecutive), followed by a two-year hiatus, after which eligibility renews for up to two additional three-year terms for a lifetime maximum of 12 years. Officers serve one-year terms, with a maximum of four consecutive years in any one office.

    The Board of Governors sets the Academy’s strategic vision, preserves the organization’s financial health and assures the fulfillment of its mission.

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    Trump Names Brendan Carr To Lead The FCC

    Monday, November 18, 2024

    President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, as the new chairman of the agency tasked with regulating broadcasting, telecommunications and broadband.

    Carr is a longtime member of the commission and served previously as the FCC's general counsel. He has been unanimously confirmed by the Senate three times and was nominated by both Trump and President Joe Biden to the commission.

    The FCC is an independent agency that is overseen by Congress, but Trump has suggested he wanted to bring it under tighter White House control, in part to use the agency to punish TV networks that cover him in a way he doesn't like.

    Carr has of late embraced Trump's ideas about social media and tech. Carr wrote a section devoted to the FCC in " Project 2025," a sweeping blueprint for gutting the federal workforce and dismantling federal agencies in a second Trump administration produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation.

    Trump has claimed he doesn't know anything about Project 2025, but many of its themes have aligned with his statements.

    Carr said in a statement congratulating Trump on his win that he believed "the FCC will have an important role to play reining in Big Tech, ensuring that broadcasters operate in the public interest, and unleashing economic growth."

    "Commissioner Carr is a warrior for Free Speech, and has fought against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans' Freedoms, and held back our Economy," Trump said in a statement on Sunday. "He will end the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling America's Job Creators and Innovators, and ensure that the FCC delivers for rural America."

    The five-person commission has a 3-2 Democratic... Read More

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