Law and the Media Committee Hosts Macomb Newsroom Seminar

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Law and the Media Committee Hosts Macomb Newsroom Seminar

12/9/03

Another in a series of newsroom seminars to help journalists navigate the legal system will be undertaken by the State Bar's Law and the Media Committee on Tuesday, December 9, 2003 in Mt. Clemens. The hour-long program beginning at Noon will be held at the offices of the Macomb Daily, a general newspaper with circulation of 52,000.

"The program will highlight common practical and substantive difficulties that journalists encounter in covering the legal system in Michigan, and ways to overcome these," said Thomas H. Howlett, chairperson of the State Bar's Law and the Media Committee.

Committee members will present the seminar. Each presenter is an attorney as well as a current or former journalist. The panel includes:

Eric Freedman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former Detroit News reporter and current Michigan State University journalism professor;
James Mitzelfeld, an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan who formerly worked at The Detroit News, where he won the Pulitzer Prize;
Thomas Howlett, an attorney at the Googasian Firm, P.C. in Bloomfield Hills who formerly worked as a reporter with The Dallas Morning News; and
Thomas Rombach, a Macomb County trial attorney who formerly worked for the Dearborn Press Guide and Dearborn Times Herald.

Each newsroom seminar features hypothetical fact situations and the presenters encourage participation by the news staff. Each presentation is followed by a discussion and question and answer session. To date, the Law and Media Committee has held newsroom seminars in Lansing, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, and Flint and they have all been well received. To learn more about these free seminars or arrange one for your news staff, please contact Thomas Howlett at (248) 540-3333.

Information about newsroom seminars and other programs can be accessed online at www.michbar.org. Click on Sections and then scroll to Committee websites, click on Law and the Media.

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