Bio:
Christopher Ali is an associate professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. He holds a PhD in Communication Studies from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Christopher’s research focuses on telecommunications policy and regulation, media policy, local news, and critical political economy. He is the author of the forthcoming book Rural broadband and the future of connectivity with MIT Press, and of Media Localism: The Policies of Place (University of Illinois Press, 2017). Christopher has published extensively in internationally recognized peer reviewed journals, and has written for the New York Times, The Hill, Columbia Journalism Review and Nieman Reports. He has been a Fellow with the Benton Institute for Broadband and Society,
