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EVENT NOTES: "Journalism's Digital Transition: Unique Legal Challenges and Opportunities"

These pages are notes taken by Bill Densmore of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute while attending and participating April 9, 2010, in a one-day seminar at Harvard Law School: "Journalism's Digital Transition: Unique Legal Challenges and Opportunities." The event was organized by the Online Media Legal Network of the Berkshire Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. There are three panels; we'll build a page on each. THE CONFERENCE AGENDA HAS DETAILS ON PARTICIPANTS AND OVERVIEW TOPICS.

Links to rough notes on each of the three sessions:

SESSION ONE:Saving Journalism from Itself?

SESSION TWO: Building and Managing Online Communities -- Anonymity, Defamation and Privacy, Oh My!

SESSION THREE: The Future of Journalism: Law and Ethics in a Changing Media Ecosystem

OTHER LINKS:

• The Journalism Trust Association
• Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
• BACK TO TOP OF THESE NOTES
• The hash tag for today's seminar on Twitter is: #jdt

Introductory remarks on the day from David Ardia

David Ardia is director of the Citizen Media Law Project at the Berkman Center.

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Bill Densmore, / 413-458-8001