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Contact: Laura Razo, Continuing Education, (785) 864-7856

Pulitzer Prize winners to headline media law seminar

LAWRENCE -- Two Pulitzer Prize winners will speak at the 14th annual Media and the Law Seminar Thursday, April 26, at the Downtown Marriott in Kansas City, Mo.

Paul Gigot, Wall Street Journal columnist and 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary, will be the luncheon speaker. Gigot, based in Washington, D.C., comments on political events in his weekly Wall Street Journal column, "Potomac Watch." He also appears regularly as a political analyst on the PBS "NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer and periodically on NBC's "Meet the Press" and the Fox News Channel. He will share his insights on covering politics, the new Bush administration and the November election.

George Dohrmann, a 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner for beat reporting, is a writer for Sports Illustrated. He will be a featured member of a panel on investigative reporting and minimizing legal risk. While a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Dohrmann received the Pulitzer Prize for his investigation of academic fraud in the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota.

The seminar will feature other industry experts speaking on government scrutiny of content programming and advertising; Internet communications, including intellectual property and privacy; and necessary review before publication of a story or press release. One hour of the seminar will be devoted to legal ethics.

Additional participants include representatives of Microsoft, AOL Time Warner, the Wall Street Journal, and the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News.

The Media and the Law Seminar focuses on issues of mutual concern to lawyers and journalists, such as media coverage of the legal process; relationships between the press, bar and bench; conflicts between free speech and privacy; and relations between business and the media.

The seminar is sponsored by the Media and the Law Committee of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association and University of Kansas Continuing Education.

For information or to register, call toll free (877) 404-5823, or visit http://www.kuce.org/app/law. Separate tickets for the luncheon, featuring Gigot, will be available after March 28 if space permits.