Covering The Courts

Author : S L Alexander
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0585471576
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Covering the Courts written by S L Alexander and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-09-08 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: News coverage of law can be a daunting task for any journalist, especially in a time when public interest in media coverage of the courts has greatly intensified. The second edition of Covering the Courts provides the most up-to-date resources for journalists and students. Detailed descriptions of each step of the judicial process along with tips from top journalists allow for a comprehensive analysis of courtroom activities. This handbook also addresses the complex issues surrounding the free press/fair trial controversy, pre-trial publicity, and the various types of news coverage allowed across the country. New discussions include recent high-profile trials such as US v Microsoft, the 2000 presidential election, and cases relating to the terrorist attacks of 9/11. This book is a substantial resource for journalism students and journalists covering the modern legal system.

Author : Robert Giles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351525360
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Covering the Courts written by Robert Giles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the Courts shows how writers and journalists deal with present-day major trials, such as those involving Timothy McVeigh and O.J. Simpson. The volume features such outstanding contributors as Linda Deutsch and Fred Graham, and provides an in-depth look at the performance of the court in an age of heightened participation by reporters, camera operators, social scientists, major moguls of network radio and television, and advocates of special causes.The volume does far more than discuss specific cases. Indeed, it is a major tool in the study of the new relationships between a free press and a fair trial. Interestingly, a consensus is described in which the parties involved in efforts to balance freedom of the press and the right to a fair trial are moving in tandem. In this regard, sensitive issues ranging from the universality of law to the particularity of racial, religious, and gender claims, are explored with great candor.The volume also turns the intellectual discourse to its major players: the members of the press, the lawyers, and the judiciary. Has there been a shift from reporting functions to entertainment values? Does television and live presentation shift the burden from the contents of a case to the photogenic and star quality of players? What excites and intrigues the public: serious disturbances to the peace and mass mayhem, such as the Oklahoma bombings or sexual adventures of entertainment and sports figures? The findings are sometimes disturbing, but the reading is never dull. This book will be of interest to journalists, lawyers, and the interested general public.This volume is the latest in the Transaction Media Studies Series edited by Everette E. Dennis, dean of the school of communication at Fordham University. The volume itself is edited by Robert Giles, the editor, and Robert W. Snyder, the managing editor, of Media Studies Journal. The original contributions were initially presented at The Freedom Forum and its Media Studies Center.

Author : Curtis Daniel MacDougall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Covering the Courts written by Curtis Daniel MacDougall and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Toni Locy
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781433114496
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Covering America's Courts written by Toni Locy and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With a specific, thorough, and practical approach, this text is an engaging and accessible introduction to the American court system, its players, language, and impact on the public". -- BACKCOVER.

Author : Lyle W. Denniston
Publisher : Hastings House Book Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reporter and the Law written by Lyle W. Denniston and published by Hastings House Book Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reporter and the Law is an insider's view of how the legal system and the press work together. Lyle Denniston begins from the premise that the law and its institutions are the public's business and that the journalist's responsibility is to appreciate, understand, and evaluate the legal process and to convey that reasoned comprehension to the public. To facilitate this task, Denniston dispels the cloud of mystery that surrounds legalese, defines the jargon of both the legal and the journalistic professions, and explains how each discipline depends on the other to perform its task properly.

Author : Marjorie Cohn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742520233
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cameras in the Courtroom written by Marjorie Cohn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the effects of both allowing and barring television coverage of legal proceedings, Cohn (the Thomas Jefferson School of Law) and Dow, a retired CBS News correspondent, examine landmark televised trials, including those of O. J. Simpson and William Kennedy Smith, and analyze the impact of CourtTV and the history of cameras in American courtrooms. Interviews with judges, attorneys, jurors, and legal scholars shed light on the subject. This paperback reprint features a new preface by the authors, on the effect of excluding television cameras from the trial of a September 11th terrorist. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook for federal grand jurors written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : S. L. Alexander
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576079805
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media and American Courts written by S. L. Alexander and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-06-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique reference work exploring the interaction of ever more pervasive media and the U.S. judicial system in the 20th century. At a time when two-thirds of local news is crime- or court-related, when Court TV broadcasts daily, and when one lurid case can push all other news aside, Media and American Courts: A Reference Handbook offers a much-needed examination of how the press and the judicial system interact. Despite the benefits (a better-informed public, judicial accountability), has expanded coverage of the courts in fact weakened our democracy? Media and American Courts approaches this question by exploring the cases, the personalities, and the controversies that have redefined the court/press relationship in the past century as the media expanded from print and radio to courtroom cameras, cable, and the World Wide Web. It also includes suggestions from legal and media experts for making court news more accurate, informative, and useful.

Author : William Haltom
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reporting on the Courts written by William Haltom and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1998 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text offers perspectives on media coverage of the courts. How accurate and unbiased is television and newspaper coverage of legal issues? The author looks at economics, the influence of ratings, and how accuracy is sometimes lost amid the often conflicting values of these two institues. He also examines the biases of both the courts and the press.

Author : United States Sentencing Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.5V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guidelines Manual written by United States Sentencing Commission and published by . This book was released on 1988-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: