Media Law and Ethics

This fully revised seventh edition provides a thorough introduction to both the legal and ethical considerations relevant to students pursuing careers in media, law and communication.

This comprehensive textbook integrates fundamental legal and ethical principles with cases and examples from both landmark moments and recent history. It incorporates discussion of new technologies and media throughout its coverage of core topics such as intellectual property, defamation and commercial speech. This edition introduces readers to media law in comparative international communication and explores topics such as data mining, artificial intelligence and the dark web. Coverage of recent court cases and congressional hearings bring readers up to date on the evolving discussion surrounding Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), TikTok and today’s other major online sources.

This hybrid textbook is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in media and communication that combine law and ethics.

Online resources, including sample syllabi and a test bank, are available at www.routledge.com/9781032612928.

Roy L. Moore is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at the University of Kentucky, USA.

Michael D. Murray is a Board of Curators Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, USA and the first Governor Emeritus of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for Mid America.

The revised, seventh edition of Media Law and Ethics includes revised chapters by Eric P. Robinson of the University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications and new chapters by contributors Gayane Torosyan of the State University of New York College at Oneonta and Kenneth Carberry of Curry College.