Howard Mort­man is com­mu­ni­ca­tions direc­tor for C‑SPAN, the pub­lic ser­vice pro­vid­ing tele­vi­sion cov­er­age of the U.S. Con­gress. A vet­er­an of Wash­ing­ton, DC media orga­ni­za­tions, he has observed Con­gress from posi­tions at MSNBC, Nation­al Journal’s Hot­line, Broad­cast­ing Board of Gov­er­nors, and New Media Strate­gies. He grad­u­at­ed from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Maryland.