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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2025
Print publication year:
2025
Online ISBN:
9781009515511
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Book description

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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Contents

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  • 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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