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JOURNALISM & THE NEW MEDIA ECOLOGY:
WHO WILL PAY THE MESSENGERS?
NOVEMBER 13 – 14, 2009
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Yale Law School has long focused on the intersection of law, media and journalism. The Law and Media program builds on this history and is directed toward:
- Yale Law School students who plan to be journalists, advocates for journalists, policy makers or leaders in the media industry;
- working journalists who seek a deeper understanding of law, media, and policy;
- scholars who study cutting-edge issues of law and media.
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During the 2008-09 academic year the Law and Media Program has presented:
Joseph Turow
Lucy Daglish
The Future of Student Internet Speech
Jane Mayer
Linda Greehouse
Anthony Lewis
Frank LoMonte
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Professor Joseph Turow, Robert Lewis Shayon Professor and Associate Dean at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School appeared as a featured speaker at the Law and Media Luncheon Series to disclose how web site owners lurk and use the data they collect to create deeply personal, concealed portraits of Internet users of which they are unaware and over which they have no control.
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Lucy Dalglish, Executive Director of the Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press and a YLS MSLJ Alum disclosed at a Law and Media Lunch how she and her organization discover and work to root out secret dockets, secret trials and secret prisoners in the federal and state systems.
The Future of Student Internet Speech: What Are We Teaching the Facebook Generation?
The Law and Media Program convened a two-day conference of national leaders in public education and journalism to assess growing limitations of student journalism and student-to-student Internet speech. The attendees are forming a coalition under LAMP’s leadership to develop age-appropriate, hands-on media law training to prepare new generations of First Amendment speakers.
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Jane Mayer, author of The Dark Side, drew an overflow audience of students and Faculty to a Law and Media Program Lunch to hear and question her about how she gathered the information to help lift the curtain on Bush Administration legal shortcuts that concealed the kidnapping and torture by U.S. agents of suspects as part of the “war on terrorism.”
Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and former New York Times Supreme Court Reporter Linda Greenhouse told a rapt audience about her career and what to watch for from the Court.
Pulitzer Prize winning author and First Amendment champion Anthony Lewis shares his insights with Law and Media students.
Frank LoMonte of the Student Press Law Center traced the growth of censorship of student speech—in and out of schools—by public school administrators.
The Law and Media Program is open to all Yale Law School students, including students in the J.D. and graduate programs. No special application is required. The program includes courses related to law and media; writing workshops; speakers, conferences and events; and career counseling and support for summer internships. The Program’s director is Professor Jack Balkin. Its Executive director is Stephen Nevas, a media lawyer and former network correspondent. Emily Bazelon, Truman Capote Fellow in Writing and Law and Senior Editor at SLATE offers workshops about writing for the Interet and creating Op-Ed pieces. Pulitzer Prize-winning legal writer Linda Greenhouse ’78 M.S.L. will return to Yale Law School in January 2009 as the Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence.
The Law School received a grant from John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to support many of these efforts through the Knight Law and Media Scholars Program. In addition, the Knight grant will enable the Law School to bring working journalists to the Law School for training programs and conferences.
Law and Media programming at the Law School is enhanced by the Information Society Project, an intellectual center founded in 1997 to study the effects of new information technologies on law and society and to promote access to knowledge, freedom of speech, and civil liberties in the United States and around the world.
The Law School also offers the Degree of Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.) for journalists seeking an intensive immersion in legal thinking so that they are better able to educate their audiences upon their return to journalism. This one-year program is designed for those who do not desire a professional law degree, but who are interested in a rigorous curriculum and grounding in legal studies. Need-based financial aid is available for M.S.L. candidates, as is the Law School’s post-graduate loan repayment assistance program, COAP.
