In media news, the president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Kathleen Cox, has resigned. Ken Ferree has been named as the interim president. He recently became CPB’s executive vice president after resigning from a top post at the Federal Communications Commission. He was a leading advocate for the further weakening of media ownership regulations. Cox’s resignation also came just three days after the CPB appointed its first ombudsmen: former Reader’s Digest editor William Schulz and former NBC News journalist Ken Bode. Their job will be to “both protect the production of public broadcasting from undue interference and to ensure that it represents high standards in accuracy, balance and objectivity.” Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy charged that Cox became a “victim of the ideologues who run CPB.”