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Media Law Prof Blog
CNN’s Howard Kurtz Jumps To Fox
CNN has announced that Howard Kurtz, the host of the popular media show Reliable Sources, is departing the network for rival Fox. More here from the Hollywood Reporter, here from…
Media Law Prof Blog
A First For Fleet Street
Amol Rajan is the first non-Caucasian to head a major UK newspaper, the Independent, and he's only 30. More here from the Guardian.
Media Law Prof Blog
The First Amendment and Hot News Today
Joseph A. Tomain, Florida Coastal School of Law, has published First Amendment, Fourth Estate & Hot News: Misappropriation is Not a Solution to the Journalism Crisis in the 2012 volume…
Inside Global Tech
AP Spying: An Unprecedented Invasion of the Fourth Estate
In dim Mexican restaurants, behind abandoned schools, and on nameless suburban street corners, I met some of the bravest people that I have ever known. And I can't tell you…
Privacy and Cybersecurity
AP Spying: An Unprecedented Invasion of the Fourth Estate
In dim Mexican restaurants, behind abandoned schools, and on nameless suburban street corners, I met some of the bravest people that I have ever known. And I can't tell you…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Twitter is a reporter’s dream : Opportunity awaits lawyers
Twitter is a reporter's dream, per Janine Gibson (@janinegibson), Editor in Chief of the Guardian US, speaking today at the Social Media Summit presented by the New York Times, Knight…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Interesting coverage of media coverage of crime and prison punishments
Main April 15, 2013Interesting coverage of media coverage of crime and prison punishments Thanks to this post at How Appealing, I discovered that the the March / April 2013 issue…
Media Law Prof Blog
Fox News Reporter May Go To Jail To Protect Source In Colorado Shooting Suspect Trial
Fox News journalist Jana Winter is waiting to see if her notebook, which contains background information on a story she wrote last summer about Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes, will…
Media Law Prof Blog
Anthony Lewis, NYT Journalist, Dies At 85
Anthony Lewis, the noted New York TImes journalist, has died. Mr. Lewis won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work reporting on the work of the Supreme Court. He published a…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling: Jose Antonio Vargas
Jose Antonio Vargas, a journalist, filmmaker, and the founder of the immigration awareness organization Define American, is the 2013 recipient of The Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling.In June 2011, against the…