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Media Law Handbook
A Handbook Series Edition
Published in 2010 by:
Bureau of International Information Programs
United States Department of State
http://www.america.gov/publications/books/
media-law.html
medialaw@state.gov
staff
Coordinator: ........................... Dawn McCall
Executive Editor: ................... Jonathan Margolis
Publications Office Director: . Michael Jay Friedman
Editor in Chief: ....................... Lynne D. Scheib
Managing Editor: ................... Anita Green
Art Director/Design: ............... David Hamill
Writer: ..................................... Jane Kirtley
Photo researcher: .................. Maggie Sliker
Jane Kirtley has been the Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota since August 1999. She was named Director of the Silha Center in May 2000. Prior to that, she was Executive Director of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Arlington, Virginia, for 14 years. Before joining the Reporters Committee staff, Kirtley was an attorney for five years with the law firm of Nixon, Hargrave, Devans and Doyle in Rochester, New York, and Washington, D.C.
She is a member of the New York, District of Columbia, and Virginia bars. Kirtley also worked as a reporter for the Evansville Press (Indiana) and The Oak Ridger and Nashville Banner (Tennessee).
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