News Media Coalition
News Media CoalitionOtherAdvocacy
Summary: The News Media Coalition, representing a large group of news organizations and media professionals, submitted a comment regarding the FAA's proposed rules for small unmanned aircraft systems. While they support several aspects of the rule, such as the creation of a micro UAS category and certain testing requirements, they oppose specific restrictions on beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flights, nighttime operations, and flights over people, arguing these would hinder First Amendment newsgathering.
Please see the attached Comment filed on behalf of the News Media Coalition, comprised of:
Advance Publications, Inc.; A.H. Belo Corp.; The Associated Press; Cable News Network, Inc.; Capitol Broadcasting Co.;
Cox Media Group, LLC; Fusion Media Network, LLC; Gannett Co., Inc.; Getty Images (US), Inc.; Gray Television Group, Inc.; Media Law Resource Center; MPA the Association of Magazine Media; National Press Club; National Press Photographers Association; NBCUniversal Media, LLC; The New York Times Company; Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press;
The E.W. Scripps Company; Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.; Society of Professional Journalists; Thomson Reuters (Markets) LLC; and WP Company LLC.