Your students are future journalists and media professionals—not lawyers— and their media law textbook should reflect that. With its clear, concise writing and easy-to-navigate chapters, The Law of Journalism and Mass Communication is easily the most engaging and readable book on the market. While offering essential coverage and analysis, the authors complement substantive discussion of case law with an abundance of photographs, hypothetical situations, contextual timelines, a handy marginal glossary and a colorful interior design.

• Suppose... hypothetical cases at the start of each chapter situate legal issues and get students thinking critically;
• Timelines show landmark cases within the backdrop of important historical events;
• Real World Law boxes illustrate contemporary examples and emerging topics;
• Points of Law boxes underscore key points through legal tests or useful checklists; and
• Two excerpted Cases for Study—complete with case facts, an explanatory headnote and questions— conclude every chapter, eliminating the need for a separate casebook.

Unlike many revisions that simply tack on new content— adding length and undermining clarity—the updates here are fully integrated, offering the current state of media law in one comprehensive (and comprehensible) discussion.

New coverage includes:

• implications of the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing corporations and unions the right to spend unlimited amounts on political ads;
• late-breaking court decisions on violence in video games and broadcast indecency;
• a look at the changing face of the Supreme Court;
• perspectives on free speech on campus;
• expanded coverage of the Freedom of Information Act, as well as how open records laws apply to digital information;
• WikiLeaks’ impact on a potential federal shield law;
• the latest FCC guidelines on radio station ownership;
• more on the laws governing online and social media publishing;
• the use of new media to report from courtrooms; and
• new excerpted cases—Marbury v. Madison, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, City of Ontario v. Quon and Fox Television Stations, Inc. v. Federal Communications.

New coverage includes:

• implications of the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing corporations and unions the right to spend unlimited amounts on political ads;
• late-breaking court decisions on violence in video games and broadcast indecency;
• a look at the changing face of the Supreme Court;
• perspectives on free speech on campus;
• expanded coverage of the Freedom of Information Act, as well as how open records laws apply to digital information;
• WikiLeaks’ impact on a potential federal shield law;
• the latest FCC guidelines on radio station ownership;
• more on the laws governing online and social media publishing;
• the use of new media to report from courtrooms; and
• new excerpted cases—Marbury v. Madison, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, City of Ontario v. Quon and Fox Television Stations, Inc. v. Federal Communications.

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1. The Rule of Law: Law in a Changing Communication Environment

2. The First Amendment: Speech and Press Freedoms in Theory and Reality

3. Speech Distinctions: Dangers, Fights, Threats and Educational Needs

4. Libel: The Plaintiff’s Case

5. Libel: Defenses and Privileges

6. Protecting Privacy: Conflicts between the Press and the Right to Privacy

7. Emotional Distress and Physical Harm: When Words and Pictures Hurt

8. Newsgathering: Pitfalls and Protections

9. Reporter’s Privilege: Protecting the Watchdogs

10. The Media and the Courts: Preserving Public Trials and Preventing Prejudice

11. Electronic Media Regulation: From Radio to the Internet

12. Obscenity, Indecency and Violence: Social Norms and Legal Standards

13. Intellectual Property: Protecting and Using Intangible Creations

14. Advertising: When Speech and Commerce Converge

Robert Trager teaches courses in communication law, freedom of expression, and media institutions at the University of Colorado. He is the founding editor of Communication Law and Policy. Before joining the University of Colorado faculty, Trager was an attorney with a major cable television company and practiced media law with a firm in Washington, D.C.

Joseph Russomanno is associate professor in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. He has worked as a news reporter in radio and television and as a television news writer, newscast producer and executive producer at stations in St. Louis and Denver. He has received several awards for his broadcast work. His teaching and research focus on media law and First Amendment issues.

Susan Dente Ross is professor of English at Washington State University where she teaches legal writing and conducts research on the freedoms of speech and press and the ways in which these rights can help advance greater global equity and justice. She is a creative writer and a leader in international initiatives to increase the ability of media to contribute to conflict transformation and resolution.