Introduction
to Broadcasting
East-West
University
Fall
Quarter, 2008
Course Syllabus
To
E-Mail the Instructor, click here.
Contracts
Ethics
Employment
Law
Privacy
Week
1:
Important
Dates in Radio History
WDRP
Week
2:
Important
Dates in Television History
Public
Broadcasting
Important
Dates in Cable TV History
Week
3:
About
the FCC
FCC
Organizational Chart
Indecency
Presentation
Broadcast
Indecency, 2001
FCC report interpreting agency indecency rules
Applying
for a Broadcast License
Renewing
a Broadcast License
Overview of the Telecommunications Act of 1996
FCC
Payola Rules
Week
4:
What
is Advertising?
Week
5:
Week
6:
Stages
of Filmmaking
Week
7:
Week
8:
Copyright
Law 101
Right
of Privacy
The
Right to Privacy,
the law review article that started it all
Hustler
Magazine v. Falwell
Campari
ad, disputed ad in the Hustler v. Falwell case
Elements
of Defamation
Neiman-Marcus
v. Lait
NY
Times v. Sullivan, the
"actual malice" standard
Gertz
v. Welch
Checklist
For A Defamation Review
Ethics
Assignment
Week
9:
Contracts
101
Common
Contract Clauses
Non-Compete
Clauses
Employment
Law: An Overview
Facts
About Sexual Harassment
Checklist
of Important Pre-Hiring Concerns
Illegal
Questions Checklist
Sample
On-Air Employment Agreement 1
Sample
On-Air Employment Agreement 2
Week
10:
Week
11:
Final
Links:
Communication
Associations:
The
Association for Progressive Communication
American
Communication Association
Broadcast
Education Association
Central
States Communication Association
International
Speech Communication Association
The
International Communication Association
Lambda
Pi Eta (National Communication Honor Society)
Public
Relations Society of America
The
National Communication Association
FCC/Regulation:
Federal
Communications Commission
Communications Act of 1934,
complete as amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996
Telecommunications Act of 1996,
compete text
Federal
Trade Commission
Industry/Miscellaneous:
AFTRA,
radio artists labor union
Billboard
Magazine
Chicago
Indy Media
Columbia
Journalism Review, an
up-to-date listing of who owns what
DJ
Headlines
Illinois
Broadcasters Association
Media
Bistro
Media
Recruiter
Media
Reform.Net
Museum
of Broadcast Communications
National
Association of Broadcasters
Radio
and Records
Radio
Ink, management
& marketing magazine
Robert
Feder, Chicago
Sun-Times media columnist--he knows you're fire before you do!
Socratic
Method, reserved
to inspire classroom discussions
Stop
Big Media
Journalism
Links
Journalism
Education Association
National
Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting
National
Press Club
National
Press Photographers Association
National
Scholastic Press Association
Newspaper
Association of America
The
Poynter Institute for Media Studies
Society
of Environmental Journalists
Society
of Professional Journalist
Recommended
Reading:
T.B.
Carter, et. al., Mass Communication Law: In a Nutshell (West
2000)
Cornell
University, Legal
Information Institute,
crash course in media law
N.
Goldstein, ed., The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on
Media Law (Perseus Publishing 2002)
R.
McChesney and J. Nichols, Our Media, Not Theirs (Seven
Stories Press 2002)
R.
McChesney, The Problem of
the Media: U.S. Communications Politics in the 21st Century
(Monthly Review Press 2004)
D.
Simon, Big
Media: Its Effect on the Marketplace of Ideas and How to Slow the
Urge to Merge, law
review article written by the Instructor
J. Zelezny, Cases in Communications
Law (Thompson Wadsworth 2004)
