Description: Creative. Progressive. Effective.
The Goodfriend Group is a full-service, boutique government relations and public policy firm. We have represented Fortune 500 companies, small start-ups, labor unions, and non-profit organizations before the U.S. Senate, House, White House, Federal Communications Commission, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Department of Justice Antitrust Division, and Rural Utility Service.
In the states, we have managed lobbying or conducted direct advocacy in California, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. We have assembled and managed coalitions of consumers, industry, and non-profit organizations to further important policy goals.
The Goodfriend Group represents the Communications Workers of America, including its division of journalists, The NewsGuild-CWA. For years, the NewsGuild’s new, young President, Jon Schleuss, had been warning that hedge funds and private equity funds were undermining local journalism in the U.S. by buying local newspapers, laying off most of the reporters, and then selling the real estate and other assets. But the union was unable to persuade antitrust enforcers to stop any such transactions involving pri