The Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) is jointly affiliated with Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a research center founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development, and the Center for Citizen Media at Arizona State University, an initiative to enhance and expand grassroots media.
Our Mission
The mission of the CMLP is to provide legal assistance, education, and resources for individuals and organizations involved in online and citizen media. We also provide research on free speech, newsgathering, intellectual property, and other legal issues related to online speech.
We seek to build a community of lawyers, academics, journalists, and others who are interested in facilitating citizen participation in online media and in protecting the legal rights of those engaged in speech on the Internet.
Our Partners
One of the greatest strengths of the CMLP is our affiliation with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the Center for Citizen Media. We are also grateful for the generous financial support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Philip L. Graham Fund.
Berkman Center for Internet & Society: The Berkman Center is a research center founded at Harvard Law School in 1997 to explore and understand cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. It serves as the locus for a network of Harvard and other faculty, students, fellows, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and others working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities presented by the Internet. The Center investigates the real and possible boundaries in cyberspace between open and closed systems of speech, of commerce, of governance, and of education, and the relationship of law to each.
The Berkman Center is devoted to pursuing the highest-quality research, teaching, and scholarship addressing the most difficult and fundamental problems of the digital age, and to share in their resolution in ways that advance the public interest. The Center has been at the forefront of efforts to study and facilitate online expression, including, among other initiatives: publishing a major set of research papers examining the current and potential impact of participatory news media; launching Global Voices Online, a nonprofit that aggregates and disseminates the views expressed in blogs throughout the world which recently won a Knight-Batten Award for innovation in journalism; and hosting the 2005 Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility Conference, which brought together professional journalists, bloggers, news executives, media scholars, and lawyers to study the emerging media environment on the Internet.
Center for Citizen Media:
Co-sponsored by the Berkman Center and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. The mission of the Center for Citizen
Media is to enhance and expand the emerging field of citizen media,
with a focus on quality journalism.
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation: The Knight Foundation promotes journalism excellence worldwide and invests in the vitality of the U.S. communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. Since 1950 the foundation has granted more than $300 million to advance journalism quality and freedom of expression. Knight Foundation supports ideas and projects that create transformational change.
Philip L. Graham Fund: Established in 1963, the Fund is named for Philip L. Graham, who was publisher of The Washington Post and president of The Washington Post Company for many years before his death. From its earliest days, the Fund's mission has been, first, to use its resources for the betterment of the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and, second, to support activities that will foster improvements in the field of journalism and communications.
Volunteer, Intern, and Employment Opportunities
The CMLP is always interested in help from individuals with a legal or
journalism background. We offer paid and unpaid internships, as well as
volunteer opportunities. Lawyers, journalists, and law students of all
levels are especially encouraged to apply.
Applicants should have a demonstrated interest in and enthusiasm
for journalism, citizen media or technology-related legal issues, along
with excellent research and writing skills and the initiative and
energy to see projects to completion in a fast-moving environment.
For more information on how you can get involved, please go here: How to support the CMLP.
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