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The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times

Edited by: RonNell Andersen Jones, Sonja R. West

ISBN13: 9781009515504
To be Published: May 2025
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback
Price: £29.99



This groundbreaking volume assembles an unparalleled roster of media experts and First Amendment luminaries to chart the future of press freedom in America's changing media landscape. Current and former deans of top US law schools, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, former Supreme Court clerks, and renowned scholars of law and communications offer their collective wisdom on safeguarding journalism amidst unprecedented challenges. Their contributions provide an incisive analysis of emerging threats to press freedom, from technological and economic disruptions to eroding public trust, while proposing innovative legal and policy solutions.

The volume tackles cutting-edge issues like artificial intelligence in news production and the evolving definition of 'the press' in the digital age. Blending rigorous scholarship with practical insights, this essential resource equips journalists, press advocates, policymakers, and engaged citizens with expert knowledge to defend press freedom.

Subjects:
Media and Entertainment Law
Contents:
Introduction
1. The future of press freedom - RonNell Andersen Jones and Sonja R. West

Part I. Democracy and the Press Function:
2. The press and American democracy - Robert Post
3. Political tensions and the democratic press - Gregory P. Magarian
4. Post-newspaper democracy and the rise of communicative citizenship - Nikki Usher
5. 'Murder the media': press freedom, violence, and the public sphere - Joseph Blocher

Part II. Evolving Threats to the Press Function:
6. Fitting a square peg into a round hole: why traditional free press doctrines fail in dealing with newer media -Erwin Chemerinsky
7. Countering the mosaic of threats to press functions - Lili Levi
8. Defamation law and the crumbling legitimacy of the fourth estate - Lyrissa Lidsky
9. Press benefits and the public imagination - Erin Carroll
10. Recursive press freedom as the capacity to control and learn from mistakes - Mike Ananny

Part III. Legal Protection for the Press Function:
11. Reinvigorating the press clause through negative theory - Helen Norton
12. The constitutional exceptionalism of religion and the press - Amanda Shanor
13. The other press clauses - Christina Koningisor
14. The long shadow of food lion - Alan K. Chen
15. The enduring significance of New York Times v. Sullivan - Samantha Barbas
16. Returning FOIA to the press - Margaret B. Kwoka

Part IV. Identifying Performers of the Press Function:
17. From bloggers in Pajamas to the gateway pundit: how Government entities do and should identify professional journalists for access and protection - Richard L. Hasen
18. A professional wrestler, privacy, and the meaning of news - Amy Gajda
19. Reconstructing the first amendment: teaching disenfranchised perspectives on press freedom - Meredith D. Clark
20. Journalism and academia: knowledge institutions buttressing constitutional democracy - Vicki Jackson
21. Policing press freedom - Hannah Bloch-Wehba

Part V. Supporting the Press Function:
22. The right to know - Wesley Lowery
23. Distorting the press - Heidi Kitrosser
24. Legal foundations for non-reformist media reforms: a positive-rights paradigm for guaranteeing a universal press system - Victor Pickard
25. Innovation policy and the press - Christina Koningisor and Jacob Noti-Victor
26. Are we saving the news? Martha Minow