Joseph S. Miller, Esq.
Deputy Director and Senior Policy Director
Media and Technology Institute

Joseph S. Miller is Deputy Director and Senior Policy Director of the Media and Technology Institute at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. His policy work focuses on spectrum, antitrust, privacy, intellectual property, STEM, broadcast, Internet, and media ownership diversity. He is a leading voice for equal opportunity enforcement, ownership diversity, and broadband adoption. 

Mr. Miller began his career in advertising sales in New York City at Clear Channel’s WKTU-FM, The New York Times’ WQXR-FM, and CBS Television. Prior to that, he interned in the programming department at Emmis Broadcasting’s Hot 97. He is a proud graduate of the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, at which he earned a B.S. in Mass Communication, with Concentration in Music and a Minor in Business Administration. At SUNY, Mr. Miller was inducted into the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society.  He earned his Juris Doctor from New York Law School, at which he served as an editor of its Media Law & Policy Journal.  He served as a Law Student Associate at Sun Microsystems.

Upon graduating from New York Law, he was the Assistant Director of Pace University’s business incubator program for early-stage companies in Lower Manhattan and Yonkers, NY. Most recently, Mr. Miller was a Fellow with the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, where he worked on advertising non-discrimination, media ownership, and equal opportunity issues. In 2010, he co-authored National Minority Broadband Adoption: Comparative Trends in Adoption, Acceptance and Use (The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies), a first-of-its-kind demographic and behavioral study of broadband adoption trends in the United States. 

Mr. Miller is a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association, American Bar Association, and American Society of Association Executives. A native of Manhattan, New York’s Upper West Side, he is admitted to the New York State Bar and to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Miller is also a Joint Center subject matter expert. Details on his areas of expertise can be viewed here.