The American legal system
Introduction to freedom of expression
Defamation
Privacy
Liability for emotional and physical harm
Copyright and trademark
National security
Obscenity
Advertising regulation
Press coverage of the administration of justice
Confidentiality in newsgathering
Newsgathering from non-judicial public sources
Ownership of the media and related problems
Access to the media
Introduction to broadcasting
Legal control of broadcast programming: political speech
Legal control of broadcast programming: nonpolitical speech
Cable and new technologies
The Internet.