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Mark Obbie of LawBeat [LexBlog Q & A]

By Kevin OKeefe

This morning I spoke with Mark Obbie, professor at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and author of the legal journalism blog LawBeat. Our exchange is what makes up today's LexBlog Q & A. In addition to his teaching and blogging, Mark is an associate director at Syracuse's Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media (IJPM), a program that focuses its efforts on "the intersection of law, politics, and the media." His expertise in journalism and the law places Mark in a unique position to answer our questions about how journalism is changing, the impacts those changes can have on blogging lawyers and more. The details are - you guessed it - available after the jump. 1. Rob La Gatta: Why did Syracuse decide to start the IJPM, and what were your goals in getting it off the ground?Mark Obbie: Actually, we started two things that are closely related, but they [each] had different starting points...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on February 28, 2008 (boomark / email).