Center for International Media Law and Policy Studies

The Ari Waldman event scheduled for today has been canceled. We hope to reschedule. Our apologies for any inconvenience.

The Center is co-hosting a talk by Ari Waldman, professor of law at the University of California, Irvine, on the challenges of regulating data privacy. The talk will be Feb. 15 at noon at the Maurer School of Law. Click on the link for more information.

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The Center for International Media Law and Policy Studies at Indiana University will sponsor a research paper competition for undergraduate and graduate students in any discipline on the subject of media freedom in the digital age. There will be monetary awards for top papers. The deadline to submit is Jan. 15, 2024. If you would like to volunteer to review papers, please contact CIMLAPS Director Anthony Fargo at [email protected]. Here is a link to more information and the paper submission form:

Paper Competition: Center for International Media Law and Policy Studies: Indiana University Bloomington The Center for International Media Law and Policy Studies at Indiana University’s Media School invites undergraduate and graduate students in all disciplines to submit research papers to the Freedom of Journalism in the Digital Age competition.

For those of you who were unable to attend "The Supreme Court and Freedom of the Press" on Monday night, here is link to a video of my conversation with RonNell Andersen Jones and Sonja R. West about their study of Supreme Court attitudes throughout history.

The Supreme Court and Freedom of the Press - Indiana University

The Supreme Court and Freedom of the Press, Oct. 17, 7 p.m.

The Center for International Media Law and Policy Studies will be hosting a webinar on Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. called “The Supreme Court and Freedom of the Press.” Law professors RonNell Andersen Jones of the University of Utah and Sonja R. West of the University of Georgia will be discussing an empirical study they have done about the Court’s attitudes about press freedom over the Court’s entire history. They have identified the “golden eras” for press freedom and the not-so-golden eras, and they also have determined which individual justices have been most and least supportive of freedom of the press. Center Director Anthony Fargo will be doing a Q and A with them on Zoom, and questions from the audience will be welcome. The event will also be live-streamed on the IU Media School’s page and available there after the event.

Funding for the webinar will be provided by the Barbara Restle Press Law Project.

Admission is free, but registration is required to gain access to the Zoom webinar. Here is the link to the registration page: https://iu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oGS3iZdIRueyBo1XI9rekg

No registration is required for the Facebook live-stream.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Supreme Court and Freedom of the Press. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. The United States Supreme Court is one of our more secretive institutions, but it has been in the spotlight recently because of controversial decisions on abortion, gun control, school prayer and more. Some of those decisions were controversial because they broke from precedent, the principle that p...

Center Director Anthony Fargo will be one of the panelists for a discussion of "Fake News, the Free Press, Social Media, and Government Accountability" at the Anderson, Indiana, Public Library on Saturday, Sept. 24, from 3 to 5 p.m. Other panelists are Cheryl Owsley Jackson, journalist in residence at the IU Media School, and Robin Blom of Ball State University's School of JOurnalism. Scott Underwood, editor of the Anderson Herald-Bulletin, will be moderating. The event is sponsored by the League of Women Voters and One Nation Indivisible of Madison County. The event is free and open to the public. The library is at 111 E. 12th Street.

CIMLAPS director Anthony Fargo was quoted in a Washington Post story today about Vice President Pence's record on freedom of the press: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/03/08/mike-pence-says-he-advocates-for-the-free-press-heres-his-shaky-history-with-transparency/?hpid=hp_no-name_hp-in-the-news%3Apage%2Fin-the-news&utm_term=.f331b8a3459f

Analysis | Mike Pence says he advocates for a free press. Here’s his shaky history with transparency. Vice President Pence said he is and has always been an advocate of the free and independent press.

Exciting news about a gift to the Center for International Media Law and Policy Studies. http://mediaschool.indiana.edu/news/press-release-restle-gift-to-support-research-on-info-access-sources

Press Release: Restle gift to support research on info access, sources The Barbara Restle Press Law Project will fund research to protect journalists and their sources.

CIMLAPS director Anthony Fargo was on the Matt Townsend Show on BYU Radio on Feb. 10. Here is a link to the podcast of the segment: http://www.byuradio.org/episode/306c5f15-d605-4c7c-866b-4a62001ea9c2/the-matt-townsend-show-anonymous-leaks-family-owned-companies-parent-previews?playhead=1113&autoplay=true

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A panel discussion, "Cybersecurity for Journalists (and Everyone!)," will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 23, in the Commons of Franklin Hall at Indiana University. Panelists will be Nate Cardozo of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; Anthony Fargo, director of the IU Center for International Media Law and Policy Studies; Marisa Kwiatkowski, investigative reporter for the Indianapolis Star; and Susan Sons of the IU Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. Moderator will be Joe Tomain from the Maurer School of Law. The talk is free and open to the public. Sponsors are the Media School at IU, CIMLAPS, CACR, and the Maurer School of Law.

Interesting op-ed in the NY Times today from RonNell Andersen Jones and Sonja West about the limits of press freedom: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/opinion/dont-expect-the-first-amendment-to-protect-the-media.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region

Don’t Expect the First Amendment to Protect the Media Trump’s assault on the press will require stronger opposition.

I published a piece in The Conversation about sources and leaks. Here's the link: http://theconversation.com/how-should-you-read-into-unnamed-sources-and-leaks-71214

How should you read into unnamed sources and leaks? With an explosion of media outlets that don't adhere to mainstream journalistic standards, it's became difficult for readers to know whether to trust reports based on unnamed sources and leaks.