What this service is:

Media Law Reporter is the only weekly reporting service focusing exclusively on federal and state media law, easily searchable on the web or in print.

What it helps you do:

• Have fast access to the full text of media law cases issued by all levels of federal and state courts.
• Read bench rulings and trial court decisions not found in other services.
• Zero in quickly on just the cases you need to see using Bloomberg BNA’s exclusive classification system and powerful Web search engine with intuitive navigation.
• Reduce research time with explanatory headnotes prepared by Bloomberg BNA's experienced lawyer-editors, summarizing the points of law addressed in each opinion.
• Find decisions using the new Headnote Finder feature on the web edition, which lets you see all the headnotes for a specific point of law, sorted by classification number, court, and date.
• E-mails give you a first alert to important media law decisions.
• Make sure you never miss a key ruling that could affect your organization or clients.
• Stay fully informed with news reports on recently enacted legislation, important legal decisions, conferences, and other significant developments.

Product Structure 

Decisions: full text of judicial and administrative opinions and rulings, with headnotes

Notification: current reports providing news and developments

Formats and Frequency

Print and web updated weekly.

• Commercial speech
• Copyright
• Courtroom access
• Defamation
• Federal Communications Commission
• First Amendment
• Free press
• Freedom of Information Acts
• Hidden camera investigations
• Libel
• Media ownership
• New media
• Newsgathering torts
• Newsrack ordinances
• Obscenity
• Prior restraints
• Privacy
• Reporters’ privilege
• Right of access
• Right of publicity
• Slander
• State "shield" laws
• Student publishing
• Third-party liability
• Wiretap laws