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      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      25 July 2025
      24 July 2025
      ISBN:
      9781009515511
      9781009515535
      9781009515504
      Open access funder:
      Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
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      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.86kg, 504 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.25kg, 504 Pages
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    This groundbreaking volume assembles an unparalleled roster of media experts and First Amendment luminaries to chart the future of press freedom in America's changing media landscape. Current and former deans of top US law schools, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, former Supreme Court clerks, and renowned scholars of law and communications offer their collective wisdom on safeguarding journalism amidst unprecedented challenges. Their contributions provide an incisive analysis of emerging threats to press freedom, from technological and economic disruptions to eroding public trust, while proposing innovative legal and policy solutions. The volume tackles cutting-edge issues like artificial intelligence in news production and the evolving definition of 'the press' in the digital age. Blending rigorous scholarship with practical insights, this essential resource equips journalists, press advocates, policymakers, and engaged citizens with expert knowledge to defend press freedom. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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    ‘The Future of Press Freedom is a collection of articles and essays by some of the nation’s most thoughtful and respected scholars and practitioners at the intersection of law and journalism. The collection takes as its starting point the dire economic straits in which the press finds itself, and the individual contributions offer creative solutions ranging from judicial recognition of 'press exceptionalism' in First Amendment jurisprudence to various forms of public funding for the journalistic enterprise … Recommended.’

    E. B. Easton Source: Choice

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    Page 1 of 2


    • The Future of Press Freedom
      pp i-ii
    • The Future of Press Freedom - Title page
      pp iii-iii
    • Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times
    • Copyright page
      pp iv-iv
    • Dedication
      pp v-vi
    • Contents
      pp vii-x
    • Contributors
      pp xi-xvi
    • Foreword
      pp xvii-xviii
    • Part I - Introduction
      pp 1-14
    • 1 - The Future of Press Freedom
      pp 3-14
    • Part II - Democracy and the Press Function
      pp 15-64
    • 2 - The Press and American Democracy
      pp 17-27
    • 3 - Political Tensions and the Democratic Press
      pp 28-37
    • 5 - “Murder the Media”
      pp 52-64
    • Press Freedom, Violence, and the Public Sphere
    • Part III - Evolving Threats to the Press Function
      pp 65-158
    • 7 - Countering the Mosaic of Threats to Press Functions
      pp 79-99
    • 8 - Defamation Law and the Crumbling Legitimacy of the Fourth Estate
      pp 100-115
    • 9 - Press Benefits and the Public Imagination
      pp 116-127
    • 10 - Recursive Press Freedom as the Capacity to Control and Learn from Mistakes
      pp 128-158
    • Part IV - Legal Protection for the Press Function
      pp 159-268
    • 11 - Reinvigorating the Press Clause Through Negative Theory
      pp 161-169
    • 12 - The Constitutional Exceptionalism of Religion and the Press
      pp 170-181
    • 13 - The Other Press Clauses
      pp 182-209
    • 14 - The Long Shadow of Food Lion
      pp 210-246
    • 15 - The Enduring Significance of New York Times v. Sullivan
      pp 247-256
    • 16 - Returning FOIA to the Press
      pp 257-268
    • Part V - Identifying Performers of the Press Function
      pp 269-370
    • 18 - A Professional Wrestler, Privacy, and the Meaning of News
      pp 298-308

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