DREW CLARK
Senior Writer
National Journal's Technology Daily
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Drew Clark is the senior writer for National Journal's Technology Daily, a leading online Web site at the intersection of information technology and public policy. Since the publication’s founding in 1998, Clark has closely followed the emergence of Internet law and has developing an expertise in privacy, intellectual property, antitrust, and free speech, and is now covering the telecommunications beat. He co-wrote the authoritative article on the copyright battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley for National Journal in September 2002. Clark has appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, National Public Radio, CNBC and MSNBC, and has moderated conference panels on digital television, privacy and homeland security, open source software, and the future of home entertainment. Last year he launched a bi-weekly column for Congress Daily, “Wired in Washington,” about the digital convergence of broadcasting, satellite, cable, wireless, telecommunications and technology.

Clark has more than fifteen years of award-winning experience as a reporter covering business, politics, society and law for a variety of newspapers, magazines and Web sites. Clark's prior experience as a reporter includes assignments at The San Francisco Chronicle, the American Banker daily newspaper, and the Weekly Mail (now Mail & Guardian) of Johannesburg, South Africa. He wrote a Reason Magazine cover story on the demise of apartheid-era laws won an award from the Free Press Association. His work in South Africa was followed by volunteer service as a missionary in Lisbon, Portugal, and the Cape Verde Islands. Clark is an honors graduate in Philosophy and Economics from Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, PA. He also earned a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, with a concentration in New Media, where he assisted in the launch of The New York Times on the Web. He was the first winner of the Felix Morley Journalism Award, in 1987, and received a Humane Studies Fellowship of the Institute for Humane Studies in 1995. Excerpts from and links to his articles are available at www.drewclark.com