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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 July 2025

Edited by
RonNell Andersen Jones  and
Sonja R. West
RonNell Andersen Jones
Affiliation:
University of Utah
Sonja R. West
Affiliation:
University of Georgia

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The Future of Press Freedom
Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times
 , pp. vii - x
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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Contents

  1. List of Contributors

  2. Foreword

    Jameel Jaffer and Katy Glenn Bass

  3. Part IIntroduction

    1. 1The Future of Press Freedom

      RonNell Andersen Jones and Sonja R. West

  4. Part IIDemocracy and the Press Function

    1. 2The Press and American Democracy

      Robert C. Post

    2. 3Political Tensions and the Democratic Press

      Gregory P. Magarian

    3. 4Post-Newspaper Democracy and the Rise of Communicative Citizenship: Good Citizen as Good Communicator

      Nik Usher

    4. 5“Murder the Media”: Press Freedom, Violence, and the Public Sphere

      Joseph Blocher

  5. Part IIIEvolving Threats to the Press Function

    1. 6Fitting a Square Peg into a Round Hole: Why Traditional Free Press Doctrines Fail in Dealing with Newer Media

      Erwin Chemerinsky

    2. 7Countering the Mosaic of Threats to Press Functions

      Lili Levi

    3. 8Defamation Law and the Crumbling Legitimacy of the Fourth Estate

      Lyrissa Lidsky

    4. 9Press Benefits and the Public Imagination

      Erin C. Carroll

    5. 10Recursive Press Freedom as the Capacity to Control and Learn from Mistakes

      Mike Ananny

  6. Part IVLegal Protection for the Press Function

    1. 11Reinvigorating the Press Clause Through Negative Theory

      Helen Norton

    2. 12The Constitutional Exceptionalism of Religion and the Press

      Amanda Shanor

    3. 13The Other Press Clauses

      Christina Koningisor

    4. 14The Long Shadow of Food Lion

      Alan K. Chen

    5. 15The Enduring Significance of New York Times v. Sullivan

      Samantha Barbas

    6. 16Returning FOIA to the Press

      Margaret B. Kwoka

  7. Part VIdentifying Performers of the Press Function

    1. 17From Bloggers in Pajamas to the Gateway Pundit: How Government Entities Do and Should Identify Professional Journalists for Access and Protection

      Richard L. Hasen

    2. 18A Professional Wrestler, Privacy, and the Meaning of News

      Amy Gajda

    3. 19Reconstructing the First Amendment: Teaching Disenfranchised Perspectives on Press Freedom

      Meredith D. Clark

    4. 20Journalism and Academia: Knowledge Institutions Buttressing Constitutional Democracy

      Vicki C. Jackson

    5. 21Policing Press Freedom

      Hannah Bloch-Wehba

  8. Part VISupporting the Press Function

    1. 22The Right to Know

      Wesley Lowery

    2. 23Distorting the Press

      Heidi Kitrosser

    3. 24Legal Foundations for Non-reformist Media Reforms: A Positive-Rights Paradigm for Guaranteeing a Universal Press System

      Victor Pickard

    4. 25Innovation Policy and the Press

      Christina Koningisor and Jacob Noti-Victor

    5. 26Are We Saving the News?

      Martha Minow

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