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Roy S. Gutterman
Director, Carnegie Legal Reporting Program; assistant professor of communications law and journalism
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Mark Obbie
Associate Professor, Magazine Journalism; founding director, Carnegie Legal Reporting Program
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Keith Bybee
Associate Professor, Political Science
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Lisa Dolak
Professor of Law
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Courses
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The lectures that we bring to campus, and the information on this
site,
are services to the university community and beyond. But our principal
focus is in the classroom, where we host experts in law and politics from SU's College of Law and Maxwell School, and guests from across the nation, to help prepare future journalists to write intelligently and creatively about the law.
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Current Course Offerings
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| Legally Speaking |
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| Spring 2009 |
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| Segments in NEW 305 and NEW 405 classes |
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A Carnegie Legal Reporting Program instructor teaches two types of legal-reporting tactics in existing news reporting classes.
In NEW 305, we explore how to find stories on any Syracuse University beat using legal-reporting methods and public documents. How does knowledge of the legal system and government records turn up original, groundbreaking stories on any topic?
In NEW 405, we discuss nuts-and-bolts courts reporting: how to use people and documents to tell stories about specific court cases, or on the justice system in general. |
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| NEW 500: Law, Politics and Media |
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| Spring 2009 |
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| Three credit hours |
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A seminar on the major issues of the day where law, politics, and journalism intersect. Learn what the law says, and how practical considerations of politics, public pressure, and media scrutiny affect our understanding of such critical issues as the president’s powers during war, wrongful convictions and the death penalty, and public pressure in major media-blitz legal cases
This seminar is led by faculty experts from the College of Law, Maxwell, and Newhouse, with outside experts from journalism, law, the bench, and politics.
This course is open to students at the College of Law and graduate students at the Maxwell and Newhouse schools. It also is open to select Newhouse juniors and seniors who have completed NEW 205 (news reporting) and with the permission of Professor Obbie.
NEW 500 will be meet Mondays and Wednesdays in the spring 2009 semester from 3:50 to 5:10 p.m. at the College of Law. The course coincides with LAW 839. |
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