Law and Ethics for Today's Journalist

A Concise Guide

• Author(s): Joe Mathewson,
• Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
• Pages: 240
• ISBN_10: 0765640775
  ISBN_13: 9780765640772
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism , Law / Communications , Law / Media & the Law ,

Description:... Law and Ethics for Today's Journalist offers aspiring and working journalists the practical understanding of Law and ethics they must have to succeed at their craft. Mathewson engagingly weaves together the essentials of media ethics and Law by focusing on what practicing journalists will find most useful. Everything a journalist needs to know about legal protections, limitations, and risks inherent in workaday reporting is illustrated with highlights from major court opinions.