Minow's role in developing noncommercial television. The collection includes interviews, panels, testimonies, events, and profiles featuring him between 1961 to 2016. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama on November 22, 2016. Personal life He and his wife, Josephine Baskin Minow, have three daughters, all trained as lawyers; Nell Minow, shareholder activist and movie critic; Martha L. Minow, former dean of Harvard Law School; and Mary, a library law expert appointed to the Obama administration. Martha Minnow authored a book published in 2021: "Saving the News: Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech," published by Oxford University Press. He is great-uncle to Adam Frankel, a speechwriter of his former protege, Barack Obama. Josephine Minow's older sister, Irene, is Frankel's paternal grandmother. Books Abandoned in the Wasteland: Children, Television, and the First Amendment Presidential Television For Great Debates: A New Plan for Future Presidential TV Debates A Digital Gift for the Nation (with Larry Grossman) Equal Time: The Private Broadcaster and the Public Interest ASIN B0007DZB86 Inside the Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past and Promising Future (co-authored by Craig L. LaMay) See also List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Chief Justice) References External links Broadcasting in the Public Interest: The Newton Minow Collection in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting Complete text and audio of the "Vast Wasteland" speech from AmericanRhetoric.com American Lawyer "Lifetime Achievement" Award An excerpt from Inside the Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past and Promising Future Newton N. Minow Papers at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research Image of Thurgood Marshall, Hyman Rickover and Newton Minow at convocation "Prospects for Democracy" at Beverly Hilton, California, 1963. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States Illinois lawyers Chairmen of the Federal Communications Commission Illinois Democrats Wisconsin Democrats 1926 births Living people Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law alumni Northwestern University faculty Lawyers from Chicago Singaporean diplomats Lawyers from Milwaukee United States Army non-commissioned officers United States Army personnel of World War II Military personnel from Milwaukee PBS people 20th-century American Jews Writers from Chicago Writers from Milwaukee 20th-century American lawyers 21st-century American lawyers Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients People associated with Sidley Austin Kennedy administration personnel 21st-century American Jews