FCC to Resume News Briefings With Bureau Staff Thursday

The FCC will hold a news briefing with bureau staff after Thursday’s commissioners' meeting, agency spokespeople told us Tuesday. This will be the first such briefing in over a year, since February 2020.

“Ultimately, the Chairwoman thought it was important and wanted to find a way to make it happen,” a spokesperson said, referring to acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel. The briefing will be on the record and held via teleconference before the usual news briefing with Rosenworcel, the spokespeople said. The Rosenworcel FCC had been continuing the same policy begun at the start of the pandemic under then-Chairman Ajit Pai, where bureau briefings of journalists on the record weren’t held.

The briefings will be officially announced Wednesday, the agency said.

Communications Daily has highlighted the reduction in such briefings. See here and here.