Who’s Really a Journalist?
As newspapers and broadcast news programs struggle for relevance in a rapidly changing digital media world, the legal definition of a journalist has never been murkier. A precise definition is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Free Speech: Eight Questions With Geoffrey Stone
This is the fourth in a series of interviews I’m conducting with lawyers and scholars around the country who’ve made a mark on the First Amendment. Follow me @jonathanwpeters on Twitter. Geoffrey...
View ArticleTaking Bloggers Seriously
Is a blogger a journalist? In Oregon, apparently not. On November 30, 2011, Judge Marco Hernandez of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon ruled that Crystal Cox, “a self-proclaimed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
When journalists refuse to name their sources
Follow me @jonathanwpeters on Twitter. James Risen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the New York Times, won’t reveal his sources. He’s at the center of the federal criminal prosecution of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Drones, Privacy and the Future of Photojournalism: An Interview with...
Mickey Osterreicher is a veteran photojournalist and serves as General Counsel for the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA). His work has appeared in such publications as the New York...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An Open Letter to Walter Kirn About Ohio
Dear Walter, I teach journalism courses at the University of Missouri and Ohio University, and every semester I help freshmen and sophomores write their first stories. Many of them struggle. They don’t...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Protecting student journalism that serves democracy
This is the front end of an essay I co-authored with Frank LoMonte, the executive director of the Student Press Law Center in Washington, D.C. The essay appeared in full Friday in The Atlantic. Follow...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Death, Taxes and Journalism: A Way Forward for Nonprofit News at the IRS
This is a guest post by Josh Stearns, the Journalism and Public Media Campaign Director of Free Press. He has published numerous reports on press freedom, journalism, media consolidation and public...
View Article
