A Practical Guide to Media Law - Softcover

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Ashley Messenger is Associate General Counsel for NPR, specializing in First Amendment and media law issues.  She has previously served as Editorial Counsel to U.S. News & World Report, a Fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and a radio talk show host.  She has been practicing law for nearly 20 years, almost entirely in the field of media law.

She is an adjunct faculty member in the School of Communication at American University, where she has taught media law for graduate and undergraduate students since 2002.  She has also taught similar classes at George Washington University and George Mason University.  In the fall of 2013, she will be a visiting adjunct at the University of Michigan School of Law, teaching First Amendment law.

Professional honors and leadership roles include being a member of the Media Institute’s First Amendment Advisory Council; co-chair of the Media Law Resource Center’s Pre-Publication/Pre-Broadcast Review Committee; Vice Chair of the D.C. Bar Media Law Committee; and on the governing board of the ABA Forum on Communications Law.  She received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a J.D. from Pepperdine University.