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Mark D. Lloyd

Mark D. Lloyd is an American civil rights advocate, lawyer, and journalist. He is currently a visiting professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication and Journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Early Life and Education

Lloyd graduated from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor with a double major in Journalism and Political Science. He then obtained a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Career

Before becoming a communications lawyer, Lloyd was a broadcast journalist, working for public and commercial radio and television networks, including NBC and CNN. He has also worked as a lawyer at the Washington, D.C. law firm Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, and served as general counsel of the Benton Foundation.

Lloyd has held various notable positions throughout his career, including:

• Domestic policy advisor at the Clinton White House
• Executive director of the Civil Rights Forum on Telecommunications Policy
• Senior fellow at the Center of American Progress
• Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights/Education Fund
• Associate General Counsel and Chief Diversity Officer at the US Federal Communications Commission

He has also lectured at several academic institutions, including Harvard, UCLA, USC, NYU, and Penn State.

Publications

Lloyd is the author of numerous articles and essays, and has published a book titled "Prologue to a Farce, Communication and Democracy in America" (2007). Some of his notable publications include:

• "African Americans and Information Communications Technology" (2005)
• "Bringing Broadband Up to Speed" (2009)
• "Lessons for Realistic Radicals in the Information Age" (2005)
• "Whose Voices Count, a Proposal to Strengthen the Communications Capability of Community Groups" (2001)
• "Media, Creativity and the Public Good" (2007)
• "Local Media Diversity Matters: Measure Media Diversity According to Democratic Values, Not Market Values" (2007)