Sam Gustin is a journalist focused on the intersection of business, technology, media, and public policy. He is currently a correspondent at Vice Motherboard and previously worked for Time, Wired, and other publications, where he reported on the nation's largest technology and telecom companies and their relationships with the government. He has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a BA in political science from Reed College. From 2014 to 2015, Sam was a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where he focused his research on U.S. communications policy, with a particular emphasis on community broadband networks.