Media Law for Journalists PDF Download Ebook. Ursula Smartt offers complete introduction and a reference guide to the main legal issues facing U.K. journalists. It is intended as a course textbook for students, first and foremost. However, it is also intended to help keep journalists out of jail and on the right side of the law.
The book presumes no prior legal knowledge but covers all the relevant areas including: defamation, privacy, contempt of court, freedom of expression, and intellectual property. It also looks at the difference between the English and Scottish legal systems as they pertain to the media.
The key to success in your study of law on a journalism course is to learn how to think like a media law specialist. In short, think theoretically, analytically and like a lawyer. This book advises you on how to learn to speak and write using the correct journalists’ language when studying or applying your skills. In other words, this book shows how to stay on the right side of the law when working as a journalist.
Each chapter concludes with a further reading section, which is designed to put the icing on the cake – that is, give you the chance to write a top-class, ‘distinction’- type essay or piece of journalistic research. This feature gives you guidance on the main textbooks that you will be using on your course. These can be augmented via the bibliography and Internet sources listed in the appendices at the end of the book. Additionally, it can help those journalists who wish to advance their legal knowledge in a particular field.
It is written in a clear and user-friendly style, avoiding the legalistic language that can be a problem with so many law textbooks. Particularly well written are the case studies in each chapter. This book will be essential reading for all students of journalism as well a welcome guide to professional journalists.
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