LAW 750 - Media Law

Credits, 2 sem. hrs.

This course will focus on the media’s ability to gain access to information from meetings of public bodies (aka “Sunshine Laws”), the defamation standards that apply to media publishing, the extent to which members of the media are able to keep their sources confidential (aka “reporters privilege”), privacy rights of people involved in media reporting, requirements and procedures that must be followed to close a court proceeding and/or court records, and the rules involving the modern phenomena of allowing the public to comment anonymously by electronic means on media stories.

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