Photo: #A demonstrator from Avaaz, a global campaigning group, wearing a Rupert Murdoch head, holds banners in front of Parliament in London, Wednesday, July 13, 2011. Murdoch's News Corp. media company has been rocked by a phone hacking and bribery scandal at the News of the World, which the company closed last Sunday after 168 years.
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A demonstrator from Avaaz, a global campaigning group, wearing a Rupert Murdoch head, holds banners in front of Parliament in London, Wednesday, July 13, 2011. Murdoch's News Corp. media company has been rocked by a phone hacking and bribery scandal at the News of the World, which the company closed last Sunday after 168 years. (Kirsty Wigglesworth/ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Jane Kirtley on the state of the media 2011

Broadcast: Midday, 12/29/2011, 11:00 a.m.

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University of Minnesota media ethics and law professor Jane Kirtley reviews the biggest and most important developments in the media world, press freedom around the world, and she looks to the future.

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  • Jane Kirtley: Director of the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law, University of Minnesota. Professor of Media Ethics and Law at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Affiliated faculty member, University of Minnesota Law School. Lawyer and former journalist. Executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press 1984-1999.

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