Kathy Roberts Forde, Mary Junck Research Colloquium

Mary Junck Research Colloquium
UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication
March 5, 2009

Kathy Roberts Forde

"Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment"

In November 1984, Jeffrey Masson filed a libel suit against writer Janet Malcolm and the New Yorker, claiming that Malcolm had intentionally misquoted him in a profile she wrote for the magazine about his former career as a Freud scholar and administrator of the Freud archives. Over the next twelve years the case moved up and down the federal judicial ladder, at one point reaching the U.S. Supreme Court, as lawyers and judges wrestled with questions about the representation of "truth" in journalism and, by extension, the limits of First Amendment protections of free speech.

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