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Prof. Clay Calvert Esq., Ph.D.


Self Description

August 2006: "Clay Calvert, professor of communications and law, serves as co-director of the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment.

Calvert's research and teaching focus on issues involving the freedoms of speech and press, and he is the author of the book Voyeur Nation: Media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern Culture (Westview Press, 2000). He is co-author of the nation's top-selling undergraduate communications law textbook, Mass Media Law (McGraw-Hill).

He has published more than 60 law journal articles in the past 10 years. He is a member of the State Bar of California. In 2004, he was named as recipient of the Krieghbaum Under-40 Award. The award, presented by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), annually recognizes a member of the association under 40 years old who has excelled in teaching, research and service."

http://www.comm.psu.edu/faculty/calvert.html

Third-Party Descriptions

August 2006: '"The problem is that one can never get one's reputation back," says Clay Calvert, a professor of communications and law at Penn State University and coauthor of "Press Coverage of The JonBenet Ramsey Murder and Its Legal Implications." "No amount of coverage could ever make up for the harms that were done to the Ramsey family."'

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0821/p03s01-ussc.html

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Organization Head/Leader (past or present) Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment Organization Aug 24, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) - College Park Organization Aug 24, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Stanford University Organization Aug 24, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) University of the Pacific (UOP) Organization Aug 24, 2006

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Jun 15, 2007 Lawmakers Cashing In on Real Estate, Financial Reports Reveal

QUOTE: Open-government and ethics watchdogs say that Mollohan and Hastert are part of a growing circle on Capitol Hill that is engaging in land deals as a path to wealth, and they argue that such transactions have the potential to benefit from legislators' political connections and official actions.

 Washington Post
Aug 21, 2006 Why cable news pursues the JonBenet Ramsey case: While broadcast networks offer traditional journalistic fare, their cable rivals are now more like the Daily News than The New York Times

QUOTE: be sure that the words we use in a headline, that the language we use to describe what's taking place, are measured and thoughtful. That's a sentiment that John Ramsey, JonBenet's father, emphasized when the Karr development broke, urging the media not to repeat its mistakes and convict the man before he's even charged.

 Christian Science Monitor