The SAGE Guide to Key Issues in Mass Media Ethics and Law

William A. "Bill" Babcock (Ph.D. Southern Illinois University, 1979) is Senior Scholar/Professor of media ethics at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and Deputy Director of SIUC's School of Journalism. Babcock also serves as Editor of Gateway Journalism Review. He also worked at the Christian Science Monitor as senior international news editor and writing coach, directed the University of Minnesota Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law, and was founding chairman of the Media Ethics Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. William "Bill" Freivogel (JD, Washington University Law School, 2001) is University Professor and Director of the School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He began a journalism career with the Post-Dispatch in 1971, and he worked for many years in the paper's Washington bureau. He returned to St. Louis to become the deputy editorial page editor in 1997. In 1987 Freivogal was the main contributor to a newspaper series on the bicentennial of the Constitution that won the Benjamin Franklin Award. He also was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing. He shared the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and National Press Club's Washington correspondence award for stories on defense fraud at General Dynamics Corp.

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As mass media of all types flourishes and ethicists struggle to describe media norms, media law as a focus of research and practice has taken a pummeling. SAGE offers this "guide to the key issues" to clarify matters.... The editors demonstrate their journalism chops with these well-selected, engagingly written essays. Contributors range from attorneys and practicing journalists to academic instructors and researchers across the spectrum of media and communications....This excellent survey is a compelling purchase for libraries serving mass media and communications programs. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic audiences; general readers; professionals/practitioners. -- A. Schmitt * CHOICE *