Dr. Victoria “Tori” Ekstrand will join the faculty of the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication this fall to teach media law and Interent law and work in the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy.
Ekstrand’s research interests include the history of news piracy in the United States, anonymous speech and the digital free culture movement. She is the author of a book on the hot news doctrine and currently is working on a new, updated edition of that book.
Ekstrand earned a Ph.D. in mass communication from UNC in 2003. At that time, she was honored as the outstanding Ph.D. graduate in her class. Since then she has been on the faculty at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
Ekstrand also worked in corporate communications for the Associated Press in New York from 1990 to 1999. She ended her time there as the director of corporate communications. Before that she worked for several years as a reporter and anchor for AM radio stations.
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