Media Law
The U.S. amendment that protects freedom of the press.
What is the First Amendment?
The principle that journalists should avoid conflicts of interest?
What is impartiality?
The organization defends press freedom worldwide.
What is Reporters Without Borders?
The term for spreading false information online.
What is misinformation?
The case that established that student newspapers have First Amendment rights.
What is Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier?
The legal term for false statements that harm someone’s reputation.
What is Libel?
The ethical issue that arises when journalists pay sources for information.
What is "checkbook journalism?"
The term that describes government efforts to control or restrict media content.
What is media censorship?
The law that protects websites from being liable for user-generated content.
What is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act?
The case that ruled that parody is protected under fair use.
What is Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc?
This law allows journalists to request access to federal government records.
What is the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)?
The ethical principle that requires journalists to verify their facts before publishing.
What is accuracy?
The term for journalists protecting their sources from being revealed.
What is source confidentiality?
The ethical issue with using clickbait headlines.
What is misleading the audience for clicks?
The case that addressed the issue of obscenity in the media.
What is Miller v. California?
The term for prior restraint on publishing content.
What is censorship?
The term for manipulating images or videos to deceive the audience.
What is/are Deepfakes or photo manipulation?
The case that upheld the right of journalists to publish the Pentagon Papers.
What is New York Times Co. v. United States?
The term for the digital divide in access to technology.
What is digital inequality?
The case that dealt with the privacy rights of public figures.
What is Time, Inc. v. Hill?
The landmark case that established the “actual malice” standard for public figures in defamation cases?
What is New York Times Co. v. Sullivan?
The ethical dilemma that occurs when journalists must balance public interest with an individual’s right to privacy.
What is Privacy vs. Public Interest?
The law that protects journalists from being forced to reveal their sources in federal court.
What is the Shield Law?
The ethical challenge that arises when AI is used to create news content.
What is the lack of human oversight or bias in algorithms?
The case that ruled that flag burning is a form of protected speech.
What is Texas v. Johnson?