Interviews/Profiles

The 397-0 vote sends a signal to participants discussing a global telecommunications treaty at a closed-door conference this week.

Colin Crowell, a Washington veteran, launched Twitter’s global public policy operation last year.

Newspaper ads displayed on a wall in Lawrence Strickling’s office herald a technological revolution. 

The United States is woefully unprepared to counter a “catastrophic cyber-attack” that's expected within 12 to 24 months, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) said Thursday.

The House has been doing its part, Rogers said, easily passing his cybersecurity bill last month while his own committee on Thursday adopted its spending bill for fiscal 2013 by a unanimous 19-0 vote. But the White House, citing privacy concerns, has issued a veto threat against the legislation that would allow the government to inform private companies about impending cyber-attacks.

“We are today involved in a cyber war,” Rogers said in remarks at a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace event marking the launch of The Hill's Global Affairs blog. “Our challenge is … can we prepare ourselves quickly enough?”

Downloading content illegally online is no different from buying bootleg movies on the street, says ICE Director John Morton.

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In spite of steering the FCC through a fractious telecom fight, Jamie Barnett has won fans in the public-safety community.

Tim Sparapani leads Facebook's D.C. lobbying operation, which works to educate lawmakers about Facebook and shape Internet policy and legislation.

PTC's Winter is fighting to keep sex and violence out of reach for kids watching TV.

Ex-Sen. Christopher Dodd won’t rule out lobbying as head of Hollywood’s Washington trade group, despite pledging not to last year.

Public Knowledge President Gigi Sohn would be the first to tell you that she likes Julius Genachowski, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).