Center for International Media Law and Policy Studies

02/15/2024

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

02/12/2024

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.

11/28/2023

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:

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.

10/18/2022

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.

10/10/2022

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.

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...

09/22/2022

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.

03/08/2017

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

Vice President Pence said he is and has always been an advocate of the free and independent press.

02/23/2017

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

The Barbara Restle Press Law Project will fund research to protect journalists and their sources.

02/16/2017

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

02/15/2017

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.

01/25/2017

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

Trump’s assault on the press will require stronger opposition.

01/24/2017

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

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.