Jason M. Shepard, Assistant Professor, California State University, Fullerton

Jason M. Shepard, Ph.D., teaches courses in journalism and media law and history Continue reading »		These Days … Recognized by Cal State Fullerton for Outstanding Scholarly and Creative Activity for works published in 2010-2013 Recently featured in True Crime Authors DVD featurette in Ethan Hawke film Sinister Interviewing policymakers and advocates about campaign-finance disclosure laws as part of a grant from the National Communication Association with colleague Genelle Belmas Hot of the Presses from the Yale Journal of Law and Technology: Anonymity, Disclosure and First Amendment Balancingin the Internet Era: Developments in Libel, Copyright and Election Speech

Privileging the Press: Confidential Sources, Journalism Ethics and
the First Amendment

“This comprehensive litany of triumphs and failures ... pull(s) together the many threads that make up the stormy history of the journalists’ privilege into one compact volume. If I were still working at a law firm, I’d make it required reading for any new associates who want to practice media law.”

- Jane Kirtley, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, September 2012

Cited in the New York Times

Discussed in Inside CSUF

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Honored at Author's Awards
Ceremony

Recent Presentations

Student Open Records Audit as a Teaching Tool,
website and materials packet,
AEJMC Law & Policy Division

Legal Tips for Student Journalists
Journalism Association of Community Colleges Conference

New Trends in Online College Media
Journalism Association of Community Colleges Conference

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View more of my research at SSRN:
The Social Science Research Network

Spring Courses

COMM 407 - Communications Law

Syllabus: W 4-6:45

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