This course aims to teach students media, law, legal rights as well as obligations. Students will be able to learn how to publish information without violating defamation and invasion of privacy, how to gather information to avoid legal and/or ethical trouble, and how to deal with different orders. Besides, this course will examine how to steer the digital space of contemporary journalism and focus on different laws, policies, and best practices in the use of photographs and other copyrighted works. This is not such a course that would prepare students to practice law directly. Also, this course will help students to understand when and how to call on legal help.
Moreover, this course will explore the enticements of unethical practices and the consequences of giving into those enticements. Furthermore, this course will focus on the impact of the internet on the practice of journalism and other creative fields and how new communications technologies are regulated today. In addition, this course will also explore the journalistic practice of media laws in different countries specially in Bangladesh. Overall, this course aims to give students the necessary legal framework of their rights and responsibilities as journalists.