Wednesday, August 8, 1-5 p.m. Reception to follow.
Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, 4th Floor

Journalism schools are increasingly filling gaps in news coverage through school-sponsored journalism projects, either independently or in partnership with professional news outlets. Journalism schools can strengthen their educational programs and protect and advance the valuable journalism they are contributing by reasonably addressing legal risk.

Moderated by Geanne Rosenberg.

Panels include:

• Investigative Reporting, protecting sources and the journalism department’s role
• Pro-Journalism Legal Best Practices: Using the law and legal education to support journalism schools as news providers: Carnegie Media Law Task Force recommendations
• Legal Representation and Resources, including the role of media liability insurance, the general counsel’s office and school-based and outside legal resources
• The experience of journalism schools in considering and addressing legal risk

Seating as space permits. For those who have not preregistered, a check for the $45 registration fee is required for admission.

For more information, visit http://jschoollegal.org/aejmc-2012/.

How can journalism programs protect and advance their journalism and journalism education while appropriately and reasonably planning for and mitigating legal risk?

The overarching goal for this project is to help support the increasingly important journalism, journalism are contributing to the public by:

1. Identifying legal issues and areas where we might find a consensus on best practices and easy, sensible ways to reduce legal risk and providing recommendations;

2. Identifying helpful law and legal protection-related resources and making them available to journalism programs;

3. Considering strategies to help ensure journalism and press freedom values and media law expertise play a prominent role in law-related decisions.

Thank you to the many journalism and law professors, deans, media lawyers, journalists, journalism scholars and foundation-based journalism experts that are participating in this project, including from:

American University
Associated Press
Baruch College
Berkman Center’s Citizen Media Law Project
Boston University
Carnegie Corporation
Columbia University
Creative Commons
CUNY Journalism
Harnisch Foundation
Harvard Law School
Howard University
Knight Foundation
Levine, Sullivan, Koch & Schulz, L.L.P.
New York Times
Palo Alto High School
Poynter Institute
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Robert R. McCormick Foundation
Student Press Law Center
The Tribune Company
University of Minnesota
University of Missouri
University of North Carolina
University of Southern California

Geanne Rosenberg
Project Director
Professor, Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions,
Baruch College of the City University of New York
Faculty Associate, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society
(646) 312-3969
geanne.rosenberg@baruch.cuny.edu