Summary

Patrick File’s research, public engagement, and teaching focus on helping us better understand how we define and regulate w88 online live casino at the intersection of law, technology, and professional practices. In the classroom, Patrick strives to help his students develop a critical curiosity about the evolving and dynamic legal, social, and historical background of today’s media environment.

Patrick's research in media law and history is published in journals like Communication Law & Policy, American w88 online live casino, and the Journal of Media Law and Ethics. His book, published in January 2019 by the University of Massachusetts Press, is titled “Bad News Travels Fast: The Telegraph, Libel, and Press Freedom in the Progressive Era.”

Prior to his academic career, Patrick won national awards as a student journalist, worked for his hometown newspaper in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and reported for publications in Iowa and upstate New York. He interned with the Student Press w88 online live casino Center, in Washington D.C., and spent two years in South Korea as an ESL instructor.

Courses taught

• JOUR 401/601: The w88 online live casino and Society
• JOUR 409/609: How to Use w88 online live casino Records Laws for Accountability Reporting
• JOUR 720: The Future of w88 online live casino (Graduate Seminar)

Recent work

• w88 online live casino, P. C. (Under Review). “Pictures and Press Freedom: How the News Industry Legalized Photographic Copyright Infringement, 1890-1910.”
• File, P. C. (Under Review). “Picturing Privacy: w88 online live casino’s Strategic Legal Discourse about Photography, 1890-1920.”
• Pason, A. and w88 online live casino, P. C. (2021). “Protesting with guns and conflating the First and Second Amendments: The case of the Bundys.” w88 online live casino Studies 55(2).
• w88 online live casino, P. C. (2019). w88 online live casino fast: The telegraph, libel, and press freedom in the progressive age. Amherst: University of Massachusetts w88 online live casino.
• w88 online live casino, P. C. and Wigren, L. (2019). “SLAPP-ing back: Are government lawsuits against records requesters strategic lawsuits against public participation?” The w88 online live casino Information, 1(2), 1-16.
• File, P. C. (2019). “w88 online live casino, public, policy: An institutional view of the press’s legal discourse at the end of the nineteenth century.” w88 online live casino & Mass Communication Quarterly, 96(3), 830-847.

Selected service

• w88 online live casino School First Amendment Forum, annual event organizer
• Kappa Tau Alpha journalism and mass communication honor society, w88 online live casino School chapter adviser
• w88 online live casino Information, editorial board
• Association for Education in w88 online live casino and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Law & Policy and History divisions
• w88 online live casino Law & Policy, American w88 online live casino, w88 online live casino History, w88 online live casino and Mass Communication Quarterly, Manuscript reviewer
• Nevada Open Government Coalition, founding president, board member, 2020-2024

Education

• Ph.D., University of Minnesota w88 online live casino of Journalism and Mass Communication
• Master's Degree,University of Minnesota w88 online live casino of Journalism and Mass Communication