OBA Library to Host First Amendment Attorney

Join Media Attorney J. Banks Sewell to discuss how the Internet is changing American journalism on Thursday, January 15, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. at the Orange Beach Public Library . Are newspapers going to disappear? Are the new “citizen journalists” nothing more than people blogging in their bathrobes? Should they receive the same legal protections that have been traditionally reserved for reporters working for the newspapers, radio, and television?

The program is sponsored by the MLRC Institute, a not-for-profit educational organization focused on the media and the First Amendment. This talk is a part of the MLRC Institute’s First Amendment Speakers Bureau, a program created in 2005 to educate the public about the First Amendment. A grant from the McCormick Foundation has funded the Speakers Bureau Development.

The Library is located at 26267 Canal Road in Orange Beach. For more information about the Orange Beach Public Library visit the Library website at www.OrangeBeachLibrary.org or call 251-981-2923.