Media Law Handbook

by Jane Kirtley

Overview

What are the privileges and responsibilities of a free press? In Media Law Handbook, Professor Jane Kirtley, Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law at the University of Minnesota, explores how free societies answer this question.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012849205
Publisher:	Avalon Publishers
Publication date:	12/26/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	259 KB

About the Author

Jane Kirtley has been the Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota since August 1999. She was named Director of the Silha Center in May 2000. Prior to that, she was Executive Director of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Arlington, Virginia, for 14 years. Before joining the Reporters Committee staff, Kirtley was an attorney for five years with the law firm of Nixon, Hargrave, Devans and Doyle in Rochester, New York, and Washington, D.C. She is a member of the New York, District of Columbia, and Virginia bars. Kirtley also worked as a reporter for the Evansville Press (Indiana) and The Oak Ridger and Nashville Banner (Tennessee).