The Center for Future Civic Media is a proud member of the local host committee for the National Conference for Media Reform (April 8-10, here in Boston).

As such, we want to encourage everyone to take advantage of early registration pricing, which ends Friday ($125 vs. $175 afterward).

Here’s why you should: A long list of amazing people will be there. They range from experts on Internet law to a Tony Award-winning playwright, and from a Nobel laureate to organizers working on the front lines of the media reform movement.

Here are just a few of the amazing people who will be joining us in Boston:

Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz
Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig
Playwright and performer Sarah Jones
Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel
Media scholar Robert W. McChesney
FCC Commissioners Michael Copps & Mignon Clyburn
James Rucker of ColorofChange.org
Former White House technology adviser Susan Crawford
Craig Newmark of Craigslist
Comedian Erin Gibson of Current TV’s Infomania
Musician and activist Erin McKeown
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now!
Malkia Cyril of the Center for Media Justice
Rinku Sen of the Applied Research Center

You can find out more about these speakers and the program here: http://www.freepress.net/conference.

Ready to register? Do it! Early-bird pricing is still in effect until this Friday, Jan. 28. Go here to take advantage of discounted rates before time runs out.