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First Things First: The First Amendment, the Media Industry, and Democracy

First Things First: The First Amendment, the Media Industry, and Democracy

Update: 2009-04-30
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Joel Hyatt, a 1976 graduate of Yale Law School, is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Current Media. In 2005, Hyatt and Al Gore launched Current TV, a news service for young adults with viewer-created content. In this talk, Hyatt discusses the First Amendment and how it played a huge role in his various careers—from his pioneering efforts to create new delivery systems for legal services, to his current goal to democratize the delivery of news via television and the Internet.
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First Things First: The First Amendment, the Media Industry, and Democracy

First Things First: The First Amendment, the Media Industry, and Democracy

Yale Law School