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City College journalists take a crash course in the First Amendment

California Newspaper Publishers Association legal counsel Nikki Moore talked to jouralism students about their rights with the First Amendent. April 11, 2016. Julie Jorgensen, Photo Editor. | juliejorgensenexpress@gmail.com
California Newspaper Publishers Association legal counsel Nikki Moore talked to jouralism students about their rights with the First Amendent. April 11, 2016. Julie Jorgensen, Photo Editor. | [email protected]

Nikki Moore, legal counsel to the California Newspaper Publishers Association, led a discussion with City College newspaper students April 11 on the importance of understanding the First Amendment and the resources available to journalists. This was to help them have an understanding of their rights while working in the field.

“It’s essential for people to understand the First Amendment and free speech, [journalists] are the guardians of that,” Moore said.

Moore, 30, emphasized to about 20 journalism students who produce the campus newspaper that standards in American journalism require the accuser to prove a journalist is writing harmful falsehoods.

Moore graduated with a journalism degree from UC Santa Barbara before going into law at UC Davis. She frequently gives talks at colleges. The CNPA works with journalism education because in Moore’s words, “student journalists are the future of journalism.”
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Moore said she likes fielding questions from students.

“It gives me an idea of what [students] are thinking about,” Moore said.

Moore’s organization provides legal assistance for smaller newspapers without the resources to handle their own legal defenses. It also lobbies at the state Capitol to protect the First Amendment in California.  

“It was a great refresher for people who had some background in journalism, and a great primer for those who were new to the information,” journalism department chair Jan Haag said. “You guys are the guardians of that.”

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