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Journalism Under Fire

Protecting the Future of Investigative Reporting
  • Stephen Gillers
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2018
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Stephen Gillers proposes a bold set of legal and policy changes to strengthen the freedom of the press and support the free press as a public good, including protecting news gathering and confidential sources. Journalism Under Fire weaves together practice, law, and policy into a program that can ensure a future for investigative reporting.

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Stephen Gillers is Elihu Root Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.

Reviews

Tom Goldstein, University of California, Berkeley:
Using a careful and subtle reading of the Constitution and recent legal examples to buttress its case, this work provides an important, sustained argument about the Press Clause of the First Amendment. A timely, significant book by a leading legal thinker.

Jonathan Peters, University of Georgia:
Gillers expertly weaves together legal texts, public policy, and normative theory to shed new light on the Press Clause, which, as the work makes clear, has been largely abandoned by the Supreme Court in recent years. The book develops a persuasive and coherent Press Clause theory and outlines its practical implications.

Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher, The Nation:
Journalism Under Fire issues an extraordinarily timely five-alarm warning. It is a forceful response to those who today—and in the future—would demean and disparage the essential importance of a free press to American democracy. One of America’s leading ethicists and legal scholars, Stephen Gillers also reminds us why supporting and protecting investigative reporting is an essential antidote to corporate and government abuse of power and threats to democratic institutions. This book is for any citizen who wants to better understand what is at stake and who seeks bold ideas for how to keep our democracy and press free and strong in the Trump era—and beyond.


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