Hannah Sassaman

Blogs

  • Remember When We Toppled SOPA/PIPA in Just 24 Hours? How the People Can Still Win on Net Neutrality

    Josh Levy
    Hannah Sassaman
    March 5, 2014
    2014 is already shaping up as a defining year for digital rights. In the last two years, we’ve moved from one-off displays of grassroots power to more sustained bottom-up activism.

  • Lessons Learned from the Fight for Low Power FM Radio

    Hannah Sassaman
    June 21, 2011
    It was a dream that never died: thousands of groups across the United States fighting for their own community radio stations. Now, after 10 years of struggle, the movement to expand community radio can celebrate a big victory with the bipartisan passage of the Local Community Radio Act. And hundreds if not thousands of communities across America can get ready to own their own pieces of the FM dial: their own local radio stations.

  • Eyes on the Prize in Philly

    Hannah Sassaman
    April 14, 2010

    Two amazing women won the Pulitzer for my city this week – Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman. They investigated corrupt narcotics cops who lied about evidence, and threatened and got violent when the reporters brought the story to light. Their series – Tainted Justice – bubbles like the best potboiler – until you remember that families’ lives and hundreds of folks accused of crimes were brought down by this corrupt team of police. Laker and Ruderman’s story has resulted in, according to the Daily News’s victory lap article in Tuesday’s paper:

    Their investigation into Officer Jeffrey Cujdik and other members of the Narcotics Field Unit began last February, when an informant told the reporters that the cops sometimes lied on search warrants.

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