Linda Cobb-Reiley

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University of Denver
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Mass Communications & Journalism Studies
Associate ProfessorAppointed: 1986
University of Denver
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Mass Communications & Journalism Studies
Associate Professor

Mailing Address

2490 S. Gaylord Street
University of Denver
Denver, Colorado 80208
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (303) 871-3980
Fax: (303) 871-4949
lcobb@du.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of Utah, Communication, 1986.
M.A., American University, Journalism and Mass Communication, 1969.
B.A., Purdue University, English and Speech, 1966.

Expertise and Research Interests

My expertise is in First Amendment theory and Mass Media Regulation and policy. My primary research interests include the historical-legal evolution of first amendment freedoms and contemporary first amendment controversies, particularly legal issues surrounding the new communications technologies.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Communications, Law, Mass Communication, Mass Media, Telecommunications Policy.

Additional Terms:

Communications, Education/instructional Technology, Freedom of Speech, Internet Law, Law, Mass Communications/media, Mass Media, Multimedia/interactive Communications Technology, Telecommunications Policy.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

French: (Basic, Basic, Basic)

Memberships

American Journalism Historians Association
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Phi Kappa Phi, Humanities Honorary

Previous Positions

1986-1992, Assistant Professor, University of Denver, Mass Communications
1984-1986, Instructor, University of Denver, Mass Communications
1980-1984, Assistant Professor, University of Tulsa, Faculty of Communication
1978-1980, Visiting Instructor, University of Utah, College of Humanities, Communication
1976-1978, Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Utah, College of Humanities, Communication

Publications

  • Cobb-Reiley, Linda, No Longer An Empty Box With Beautiful Words On It: First Amendment, Journalism Quarterly, Winter 1992
  • Cobb-Reiley, Linda. "The Moral Imperative of the Dissent Press in the Twentieth Century, " scheduled to appear in Freedom of Expression, Morality, and the First Amendment: An Anthology of the Symposium on the Bicentennial of the Bill of Rights, October 1991, Ohio State University Press.
  • Cobb-Reiley, Linda. "Aliens & Alien Ideas: The Suppression of Anarchists in America, 1901-1914, " Journalism History, Summer 1989.
  • Wirth, Michael O. and Cobb-Reiley, Linda. "A First Amendment Critique of the 1984 Cable Act, " Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Fall 1987 (reprinted in 1988 Entertainment, Publishing and the Arts Handbook, John Viera and Robert Thorne, eds.,New York: Clark Boardman Co., Ltd.)
  • Cobb-Reiley, Linda, The Tradition of Liberty in America: Freedom of Expression in the.. (forthcoming)

Profile Details

Last Updated: 2/18/2000

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