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12:00 AM  Jan. 15, 2010
First Amendment / FOI Bibliography
By David Shedden (More articles by this author)
Library Director, Poynter Institute

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ONLINE RESOURCES

Sunshineweek.org
http://www.sunshineweek.org/

FIRST AMENDMENT

ASNE First Amendment Resources
http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?id=4

First Amendment Center

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/

First Amendment Foundation (Florida)
http://www.floridafaf.org/

First Amendment Handbook
(Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press)
http://www.rcfp.org/handbook/

First Amendment: An Overview
(Legal Information Institute)
http://law.cornell.edu/topics/first_amendment.html

First Amendment Resources
(American Library Association)
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/
firstamendment/faresources/resources.htm

First Amendment Summit
(ASNE, January 2007)
http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?id=6420

Future of the First Amendment: Helping Young
Americans Understand and Practice Their Basic Freedoms
(Knight Foundation)
http://www.firstamendmentfuture.org

Illinois First Amendment Center
http://www.illinoisfirstamendmentcenter.com/

Internet and First Amendment (First Amendment Center)
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/speech/internet/

The Media Institute
http://www.mediainstitute.org/

Media Studies Journal: The First Amendment
(Freedom Forum, Fall 2000)

Notable First Amendment Court Cases
(American Library Association)
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/
firstamendment/courtcases/courtcases.htm

Poynter Online articles / related projects:

(Search Poynter Online for recent examples --
http://www.poynter.org/search/ )

(Earlier Examples, 2003-2007)
First Amendment Pressures Mount for High School Journalism

May 23, 2007 (Warren Watson)
Washington Bill Puts Student Writers in the Driver's Seat
March 1, 2007 (Wendy Wallace)
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=118619
Fighting for the First Amendment
February 1, 2007 (Gregory Favre)
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=71&aid=117626
Teens Learning -- and Challenging --First Amendment Values
September 18, 2006 (Sharon Moshavi)
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=11051
Sun Still Shining Online
March 23, 2006 (Amy Gahran)
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=98876
Sunshine Sunday
March 12, 2006 (Amy Gahran)
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=98198
Journalists' Rights Tracker
(Various contributors, 2005)
A Guide to Journalist Shield Laws
(Meg Martin and Larry Larsen, 2005)
http://www.poynterextra.org/shieldlaw/
Suburban Surprise
August 26, 2005 (Warren Watson)
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=87734
Readers Speak: Journalists in Jail, Federal Shield Law
July 23, 2005 (Ryan Pitts)  
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=85751
Journalists Respond to NYT's Story of Judith Miller's Role in Plame Investigation
(Various contributors, July 7, 2005)
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=84962
The Censorship Generation?
April 29 26, 2005 (Warren Watson)
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=81485
Reporter's Privilege: Could a federal shield law be a real possibility?
April 13, 2005 (Bill Kirtz)
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=80951
High School Editor Heads Off Campus For First Amendment Rights
January 31, 2005 (Elizabeth Carr)
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=77687
A Week in the Life of the First Amendment
October. 22, 2003 (Matt Thompson)
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=51467
Ken Paulson on the First Amendment
October. 22, 2003 (Matt Thompson)
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=52289

Promoting the First Amendment in Iowa
(Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication,
Iowa State University)
http://www.jlmc.iastate.edu/resources/webresources/firstamendment.shtml

Society of Professional Journalists -- First Amendment Resources
http://www.spj.org/firstamendment.asp?
(See also: WatchDog TipSheet)

A Source of Encouragement  
AJR article, August/September 2005
http://ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3909

State of the First Amendment Survey (2006)
(First Amendment Center)
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/sofa_reports/index.aspx

Teaching the First Amendment and Constitution Day
(Knight Foundation)
http://www.teachfirstamendment.org/

U.S. Constitution: First Amendment (FindLaw)
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/
data/constitution/amendment01/

U.S. Courts (Federal Judiciary)
http://www.uscourts.gov/

U.S. Supreme Court
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

U.S. Supreme Court First Amendment Cases
(Legal Information Institute)
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/
cases/topics/tog_first_amendment.html

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (FOI)

AP and Freedom of Information
http://www.ap.org/FOI/

APME and People's Right to Know
http://www.apme.com/foia/

The Brechner Center for Freedom of Information
http://brechner.org/

Coalition of Journalists for Open Government
http://www.cjog.net/

Curtis B. Hurley Symposium:
"The Seduction of Secrecy: Toward Better Access
to Government Information on the Record"
University of Missouri / National Press Club (March 17, 2005)
http://www.journalism.missouri.edu/news/releases/
2005/related/hurley-symposium-2005.html

Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org/

FBI's FOIA Website
http://foia.fbi.gov/

Florida Government-in-the-Sunshine Law
(Attorney General's Office)
http://myfloridalegal.com/sunshine

Free Speech Resources (ACLU)
http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeechMain.cfm

Freedom of Information Act Resources
(National Security Archive)
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/foia.html

Freedom of Information Center
(University of Missouri)
http://foi.missouri.edu/

FOI Handbook: ASNE's strategy for expanding
and protecting Freedom of Information in the digital era

(ASNE, August 28, 2002)
http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?ID=3410

Freedom of Information Under Attack: A Call to Arms
(ASNE, November 18, 2004)
http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?id=5305

How to Use the Federal FOI Act
(Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press)
http://www.rcfp.org/foiact

IRE FOI Center
http://www.ire.org/foi/
(related Extra! Extra! stories)

iDigAnswers (Joe Adams)
Florida public records and more
http://www.idiganswers.com/

"Keeping Secrets."
The American Editor, ASNE, May-June 2004.
http://www.asne.org/files/tae200405.pdf

Key Principles on Government Information

(American Library Association)
http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/
WOissues/governmentinfo/keyprins.htm

National FOI Coalition
http://www.nfoic.org/

National FOI Day
(First Amendment Center)
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/
press/information/topic.aspx?topic=FOI_Day

News University (Poynter/Knight Foundation)
First Amendment for the High School Journalist
Instructor: Ball State University, 2008.
Freedom of Information
Instructors: Charles Davis and Joel Campbell, 2008

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
http://www.rcfp.org/

Society of Environmental Journalists FOI Resources
http://www.sej.org/foia/

Society of Professional Journalists --
Freedom of Information Resources
http://www.spj.org/foi.asp?

U.S. Department of Justice
Freedom of Information Act Information
http://www.usdoj.gov/oip/

Your Right to Know
(Public Records Blog, Charlotte Observer)
http://charlotteobserver.blogspot.com/

BOOKS

Barron, Jerome A. First Amendment Law in a Nutshell.
St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2004.

Benjamin, Louise M. Freedom of the Air and the Public Interest:
First Amendment Rights in Broadcasting to 1935
.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.

Bollinger, Lee C. Images of a Free Press.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

----. Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide Open:
A Free Press for a New Century.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Bollinger, Lee C. and Geoffrey R. Stone, eds.
Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Carter, T. Barton, Marc. A. Franklin and Jay B. Wright.
The First Amendment and the Fifth Estate:
Regulation of Electronic Mass Media
.
Westbury, NY: The Foundation Press, 1993.

----. The First Amendment and the Fourth Estate:
The Law of Mass Media
.
New York, NY: The Foundation Press, 2001.

Cook, Timothy. Freeing the Presses: the First Amendment in Action.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.

Cornwell, Nancy C. Freedom of the Press:
Rights and Liberties under the Law
.
Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004.

Dennis, Everette E., Donald M. Gillmor and David Grey.
Justice Hugo Black and the First Amendment.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1978.

Emord, Jonathan W. Freedom, Technology, and the First Amendment.
San Francisco, CA: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1991.

Epps, Garrett. The First Amendment, Freedom of the Press:
Its Constitutional History and the Contemporary Debate.
Amberst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2008.

Friendly, Fred W. The Good Guys, The Bad Guys
and the First Amendment: Free Speech vs. Fairness in Broadcasting
.
New York: Random House, 1975.

Garry, Patrick M. Scrambling for Protection:
The New Media and the First Amendment
.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.

Glasser, Charles J., and Matthew Winkler.
International Libel and Privacy Handbook.
New York: Bloomberg Press, 2006.

Hammitt, Harry, David Sobel and Tiffany Stedman, eds.
Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws.
Washington, DC: Electronic Privacy Information Center, 2004.

Hemmer, Joseph J. The Supreme Court and the First Amendment.
New York: Praeger, 1986.

Leahy, James E. The First Amendment:
Two Hundred Years of Freedom
.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, 1991.

Levy, Leonard W. Freedom of the Press from Zenger to Jefferson.
Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1996.

Lewis, Anthony. Freedom for the Thought That We Hate:
A Biography of the First Amendment.
New York: Perseus Books Group, 2007.

----. Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment.
New York: Random House, 1991.

Murray, Bruce T. Religious Liberty in America:
The First Amendment in Historical and Contemporary Perspective.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.

Lofton, John. The Press as Guardian of the First Amendment.
Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1980.

O'Neil, Robert M. The First Amendment and Civil Liability.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.

Powe, Lucas A. American Broadcasting and the First Amendment.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

----. The Fourth Estate and the Constitution.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Russomanno, Joseph. Defending the First:
Commentary on the First Amendment Issues and Cases
.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.

----. Speaking Our Minds: Conversations with
the People Behind Landmark First Amendment Cases
.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.

Shiffrin, Steven H. The First Amendment: Cases-Comments-Questions.
St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Company, 2001.

Stein, Laura Lynn. Speech Rights in America:
the First Amendment, Democracy, and the Media.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

Stone, Geoffrey R. Perious Times: Free Speech in Wartime
from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism
.
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004.

Sullivan, Kathleen M. and Gerald Gunther.
First Amendment Law.
New York: Foundation Press, 2002.

Tedford, Thomas L. Freedom of Speech in the United States.
New York: Random House, 1985.

Tillinghast, Charles H. American Broadcast Regulation
and the First Amendment: Another Look
.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2000.

Vile, John, David Hudson, Jr., and David Schultz, eds.
Encyclopedia of the First Amendment.
Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2009.

Wagman, Robert J. The First Amendment Book.
New York: Pharos Books, 1991.

Willis, Clyde E. Student's Guide to Landmark
Congressional Laws on the First Amendment
.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.


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