Welcome to the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law

24th Annual Silha Lecture
"Unspoken Realities about
Investigative Journalism and the Law"
Featuring Charles "Chuck" Lewis
Wednesday, October 21, 7:00 p.m.

"Fever Pitch: Does Health News Reporting Leave Consumers Out in the Cold?"
Featuring Gary Schwitzer,
Thursday, April 30, 7:00p.m.

"Surveillance, Anonymity, and Privacy: Law Enforcement and your Computer"
Featuring Mary Horvath, Dick Reeve,
and Stephen Cribari
Wednesday, March 25, 11:30 a.m.

Silha Center Brown Bag with
Prof. Robert Drechsel
"The Curious Love-Hate Relationship Between
Media Law and Media Ethics"
Tuesday, November 18, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

Silha Center Fall Forum
The FCC’s New Media Ownership Rules:
Emotion and Reason in Rulemaking
Featuring Rosemary Harold, Legal Advisor to FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell
Thursday, October 23rd, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

23rd Annual Silha Lecture
Raise Your Hand if You're a Journalist: Does Responsible Reporting Need a Legal Defense?
Featuring Siobhain Butterworth
Monday, October 6, 2008, 7:00 p.m.

Film/Video/Panel
Chicago 10
Walker Art Center
Prof. Jane Kirtley will moderate
Thursday, October 2, 2008, 7:00 p.m.

Forum
Your Credentials, Please:
The Media and Law Enforcement at the RNC
What Went Wrong, What Went Right?
Monday, September 22 | 7:00 p.m.
Coffman Memorial Union Theater
University of Minnesota - East Bank

Cogi-tations: A program of the Minnesota
Coalition on Government Information
Featuring Patrice McDermott
Monday, June 9, 2008, 5:00 p.m.

Silha Spring Ethics Forum
Journalism from the Frontlines: Remaining Independent When Covering Politics and War
Featuring Edward Wasserman
Thursday, April 24, 2008, 7:30 p.m.

New Media, New Standards?
Ethics in Online Journalism
Monday, February 25, 2008, 7:00 p.m.

2008 Silha Fellowships available

22nd Annual Silha Lecture
"The Kids Are All Right: Violent Media, Free Expression, and the Drive to Regulate"
Featuring Robert Corn-Revere
October 1, 2007

When Tragedy Strikes, What is the Media's Role?
Featuring Linda Walker, mother of the late Dru Sjodin
April 24, 2007

Digital Privacy is Not Anonymity: You Can't Hide from the Data on Your Computer
With Stephen Cribari, Mary Horvath and Dick Reeve
March 1, 2007

Without Fear or Favor: Objectivity Revisited
The UBS Forum at Minnesota Public Radio
Featuring Stephen Ward
February 26, 2007

Judges in J-Schools
Featuring Judge Rick Distaso
Prosecutor, The People v. Scott Peterson
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
SJMC Conference Center
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21st Annual Silha Lecture
The Freedom of the Press v. The National Security
Featuring Geoffrey Stone
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
7:00 p.m.
Cowles Auditorium
Hubert H. Humphrey Center

The Customer is Always Right: The Assault on Media Impartiality from the Empowered American Consumer
Featuring Seth Mnookin
Monday, May 1, 2006
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Coffman Memorial Union Theater

Your Email is Not Yours: Government Survelliance and Digital Privacy
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Murphy Hall Conference Center
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Forum on Truth Telling
in Campaign Advertisements
with Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Cowles Auditorium

The End of Journalism? Why News Still Matters
Monday, February 20, 2006
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Coffman Memorial Union Theater

View photos from the 20th Annual Silha Lecture featuring Floyd Abram (2005)
Click here to listen to the 20th Annual Silha Lecture featuring Floyd Abrams

View photos from the Silha Center Spring 2005 Ethics Forum on Confidential Sources
featuring David Kidwell of the Miami Herald

View photos from the Silha Center Spring 2005 Forum on the Constitution and Privacy in the Digital Age

View photos from the
Silha Center Fall 2004 Forum featuring
Paramount Studio's Barry Allen

View photos from the
2004 Silha Center Lecture
featuring Geneva Overholser

A New Kind of Warfare Demands
A New Kind of Journalism:
Rethinking Journalists’ Wartime Ethics
Read the Bulletin story about the 2003 Silha Spring Ethics Forum with Peter Sussman

View photos from the
2003 Silha Center Lecture
featuring Ken Starr