Facilitating and encouraging dialogue about the latest legal issues and developments in media, law and technology.
30th Annual Media & the Law Seminar
The Fickle Future of First Freedoms:
Countering Top Threats to the First Amendment
Digital technology has changed everything—from the way international corporations do business to the way teenagers communicate with each other. But with those changes come challenges, and press freedom is not immune.
News leaders resoundingly agree that laws related to the First Amendment are no longer adequate in the digital age. In a recent survey of leading news editors by the Knight Foundation, 88 percent agreed that “there are many unsettled legal questions about the scope of free expression” today.
At this year’s 30th annual seminar, we will take on these unanswered questions and present how media law practitioners can counter the top threats to the First Amendment.
