About the Authors
Roy L. Moore is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Mass Communication at Georgia College & State University and Professor Emeritus at the University of Kentucky. He earlier served as Associate Dean in the College of Communications and Information Studies and Professor in the School of Journalism and Telecommunications at the University of Kentucky, where he also served as a Faculty Trustee on the Board of Trustees and Executive Director of the First Amendment Center. He earned his Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin- Madison and his J.D. from Georgia State University. He is a practicing attorney and a national authority on libel law and First Amendment issues. He has served as an expert witness in several media law cases. During 2001-2002 he was an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow at the University of Georgia. In addition to the previous two editions of this textbook, he is also author of Advertising and Public Relations Law (second edition), co-authored with Erik Collins. He chaired the Law Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and was named a "Great Teacher" by the University of Kentucky Alumni Association.
Michael D. Murray is the University of Missouri Board of Curators' Distinguished Professor and Chair of Media Studies on the St. Louis campus. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Missouri-Columbia where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the controversial CBS See It Now programs on Senator Joseph McCarthy. He has taught at Virginia Tech and the University of Louisville, where he founded the Department of Communication and also held post-doctoral fellowships at Stanford University, University of London and Cambridge University. He is a national authority on the history of broadcast news and regulatory issues and has been honored for teaching excellence by every major academic organization with a mass media or regulatory component, including the National Communication Association, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, American Journalism Historians Association and the International Radio & Television Society. He served as founding director of the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and is author or editor of seven books including Mass Communication Education, co-edited with Roy L. Moore. He recently served as the review and criticism editor for the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.