Mass Communications Law

• Mass Communications Law

A body of primarily federal statutes, regulations, and judicial decisions that govern radio; broadcast, cable, and satellite tele...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Jap–Ma

• 50 Making a Difference Profile: Katy Boren, J.D., in Okc, Vice President of Eastern Region Regulatory Affairs

Katy Boren's job with Cox Communications allows the Oklahoma native to combine both of her degrees - mass communications and law. This role of vice president of Cox Communications' Eastern Region Regulatory Affairs calls for an understanding of each local environment and government jurisdiction. It requires strategic leadership in the development of telecommunications policy in 14 of the states where Cox operates.

• The Journal Record
• October 03, 2009

• Commission Appoints Richter Associate Judge

Robert Richter Age: 33 Experience: Assistant Dubuque County attorney since 2004 Family: Wife, Natalia Blaskovich, a partner at Reynolds & Kenline law firm in Dubuque and assistant Clayton County attorney; two children, ages 5 and 8 Education: Bishop Heelan Catholic High School, Sioux City, Iowa; bachelor's degree in mass communications, St. Ambrose University, Davenport; and graduated law school, University of Iowa Hobbies: Golf, yard work and playing with the kids After spending seven years specializing in cases involving domestic violence, stalking, child endangerment and other misdemeanors, Robert Richter knows the required role of the associate court judge.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• July 30, 2011

• Request for Grant Proposals:

..., international relations, journalism/mass communications, law, physics, political science, p...

• FR, August 26, 2010
• Notices
• State Department

• Distance Education Technology and the Internet Extend Reach of Classrooms at Usi

When I was a college student in the Dark Ages of the late 1990s, I took a distance-education course from the University of Southern Indiana. It was mass communications law, taught by Dal Herring, who was then the chairman of the Communications Department.

• Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
• November 02, 2007

• The Fcc Reaches for the Mute Button

Republicans are generally in favor of personal freedom, but when it comes to broadcasting and indecency, this strikes at what they call 'family values;' there is an appeal to their party base," said William Lee, a communications law professor at the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The FCCs current rules allow it to regulate indecent - but constitutionally protected - broadcast material between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., defined as language or material that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patendy offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium, sexual or excretory activities or organs.\n 1 1 , 200 1 attacks in which firefighters were filmed using expletives that morning at Ground Zero.

• News Media and the Law
• Vol. 32 Nbr. 4, October 2008

• Milestones

DISTINCTIONS Caswell W. Richardson joined Stallings & Bischoff, P.C., at the firm's law office in Virginia Beach. Richardson earned his bachelor's degree in mass communications at James Madison University and his juris doctorate at George Mason University School of Law. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar, as well as the District of Columbia Bar.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• September 18, 2008

• Stealth Marketing and Editorial Integrity

is the first article in the legal literature to address the normative implications of covert marketing in mass media. For business, technological, and cultural reasons, advertisers and propagandists are increasingly using editors to pass off promotional messages as editorial content. This integration of sponsorship allows marketers to cut through communications clutter and audience resistance to marketing. In this way, the practices of payola, product placement, and sponsored journalism are proliferating and spreading into newer media forms like blogs and video games. A federal sponsorship disclosure law has proscribed these practices in broadcasting for nearly a century. Despite high-profile recent controversies about the practices, the legal l...

• Texas Law Review
• Vol. 85 Nbr. 1, November 2006

• Of burning houses and roasting pigs: why Butler v. Michigan remains a key free speech victory more than a half-century later.

... of American Law Schools, Section on Mass Communications Law 1997 Annual Conference Panel: S...

• Federal Communications Law Journal
• Vol. 64 Nbr. 2, March 2012

• Baptism of Fire for a Young Newshound

Here comes Editor-in-Chief Katie Thisdell: The Roanoke native, who stands 5-foot-2 in her sensible shoes, started her own newspaper as a second-grader (her big scoop: a story about the mushrooms growing in a neighbor's yard), prefers hard-boiled news stories over English literature, thinks slipping grades are an acceptable sacrifice to make in order to chase stories, and, like generations of editors before her, has been heard to swear.

... also spoke with Roger Soenksen, professor of mass communications law at JMU. The consensus: Don't g...

• Roanoke Times & World News
• April 21, 2010