Third Week in the Valley of the Sun: Successful women, intriguing laws and the City of Phoenix

I want to dedicate my blog post to three issues: first, to all the amazing and successful women I have met during our third week in Phoenix; the insights into media law and the work of US media we gained…
News12 reporter Brahm Gesnik speaks to the SUSI scholars about covering Arizona politics in turbulent times

Journalists and Judges Under the Scrutiny of Public Opinion

Although it may seem hard to believe, journalists and judges share similar challenges when it comes to credibility. Anyone who dislikes an investigative report or a court ruling points directly to questioning the prestige of the professional behind it. For…
The text of the U.S. First Amendment on a wall at the Cronkite School

Amendment

As the most important law protecting freedom of the press in the U.S., the name “First Amendment” seems quite strange to me at first glance.  Amendment? That means this clause was not included originally in the U.S. Constitution. Why not? After…
US District Court of Arizona

“The most important thing for a judge is not professional experience, but patience”*

What are the peculiarities of a precedent-based legal system? How should a judge perceive each judicial situation? These and other questions were addressed by Judge John Tuchi during the extremely informative visit by scholars from the “Journalism. Technology, and Democracy”…