Eric Freedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Freedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Freedman |
| SIGNATURE | FREEDMAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5326-8252 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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Newsies were essential to the circulation pipeline, cheap labor making newspapers profitable. They became cultural tropes, foci of rags-to-riches fiction, paragons of diligence, and tragic incarnations of poverty. This study examines their portrayal—or misportrayal—in popular music between the mid-1840s and the late 1930s. Most prevalent is their depiction as pitiable and often homeless waifs, laboring for pennies to feed their families. The cont…
Boycotting in journalism
A plethora of studies about boycotting exist in political science, marketing, business, and other areas of scholarship, but this theme has been largely overlooked in journalism. This case study contributes to scholarship on an underexplored aspect of journalism and its relationship with politics and public affairs by examining journalists’ boycotting behavior in a Central Asian context, focusing on Kazakhstan. This study uses interviews with jour…
Artificial Intelligence and Playable Media
Central Asian Journalism Studies
This exploratory study analyses growing pressures on faculty in Central Asia to publish research in high-quality international journals and how faculty attempt to meet publishing mandates from institutions and ministries motivated to join world rankings. This is important because of the scarcity of Central Asian scholarship in peer-reviewed journalism and mass communication (J&MC) journals due to the exceptional challenges faculty face publishing…
Publish or Perish? The Steep, Steep Path for Central Asia Journalism and Mass Communication Faculty
Journalism and mass communication faculty in Central Asian countries face increased institution and government pressure to produce research that appears in Scopus-indexed publications. This study interviews faculty members in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to examine how they attempt to meet these publication requirements. The findings suggest a disturbing research environment where some faculty resort to unethical means, such as buying and selling re…
The effects of access restrictions and communication strategies for divisive environmental management
In the crosshairs
Journalists covering environmental issues around the globe are at heightened risk of murder, arrest, assault, threats, self-exile, lawsuits, and harassment because environmental controversies often involve influential business and economic interests, political power battles, criminal activities, and corruption, plus politically, culturally, and economically sensitive issues concerning Indigenous rights to land and natural resources. This study us…
Returning to the mission? Journalists after jail
A growing number of journalists across the world are in prison for practicing their profession in ways that antagonise regimes, militaries, oligarchs, and other powerful interests. There have been studies by academics and press rights defenders of why journalists get imprisoned. In addition, human rights and press rights NGOs have investigated prison conditions for journalists. However, there is little published research about what journalists do…
Ethics and Journalism in Central Asia
Journalism faces a series of ethics crises, particularly in Central Asia because journalism is marked by wide ethical misbehavior including lack of balance and impartiality, using multiple fake names, selling and/or buying news, bribing journalists and others. This study analyzes professional ethical perspectives and practices of Central Asian journalists by examining and comparing the four former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajik…
Spectatorship
Barriers to Coverage of Transborder Environmental Issues in the Ferghana Valley of Central Asia
Three former Soviet republics occupy Central Asia's Ferghana Valley, a region of serious transborder environmental problems, especially ones that involve water and energy. Most news organizations in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan provide little in-depth coverage of these issues. Journalists in one country usually do not seek news sources in the others. Journalists and media experts cite such reasons as avoidance of controversy, self-censo…
Real-World Learning of Public Affairs and Environmental Journalism
Traditionally, journalism majors gain professional experience before graduation through internships, part-time or summer jobs, and campus media. Those avenues are often insufficient to adequately prepare them for the professional workplace and professional standards. This essay explores two of a journalism school’s practice-based programs that provide such preparation: Capital News Service, covering state government, politics, and public policy, …
Deepening shadows
In March 2005, a relatively nonviolent uprising ousted an authoritarian president in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. In the aftermath of the so-called Tulip Revolution, press rights advocates and journalists welcomed the promise of greatly enhanced freedoms. However, the new regime proved to be as authoritarian and corrupt as its predecessor and little liberalization of the press system was evident five years later. Physical assaults co…
Molten Light
We usually view photographs without hearing from those pictured or from the photographers who took them. An international project, “Molten Light: The Intertwined History of Steel and Photography,” seeks to bridge this gap by integrating oral histories with a multinational photographic exhibition that explores the intertwined histories of steel and photography. The exhibition and related books and educational materials will incorporate interviews …
Press Constraints as Obstacles to Establishing Civil Societies in Central Asia
More than a decade and a half after independence, none of the press systems in Central Asia's five former Soviet republics are categorized as free, nor have any of these countries transitioned to democracy. The question becomes: Why have they failed to evolve into democratic nations after successfully rejecting Soviet domination and Russian colonialism? The Western-rooted development model assumes that democracy, media independence, free markets,…
Richard Weisberg
Cet article constitue un point de vue personnel sur l’oeuvre de Richard Weisberg dans le domaine du droit et littérature. Il souligne ses démarches et ses cheminements, en analysant brièvement quelques-unes de ses grilles de lecture. Weisberg suggère que seule une lecture éveillée mène à l’appréhension du droit juste et à la compréhension de ce qu’est la droiture
Religious news and controversies in Central Asia
Religion, politics and public policy are tightly interwoven in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia, where regimes tightly control religion and domestic and foreign media. This case study examines how one Christian-oriented western news organisation, Forum 18, covers religion-related news. It finds that religious-affiliated news sources are cited more frequently and more prominently than official sources, that Forum 18 stories cover Christ…
Male and Female Sources in Newspaper Coverage of Male and Female Candidates in US Senate Races in 2004
This study assesses how the largest daily newspapers in states with female US Senate candidates in 2004 used non-partisan male and female expert and non-expert sources in covering campaigns. Using content analysis, it found that male, non-partisan sources appeared more frequently and prominently than did female sources. That difference was more than four times greater for expert sources who provided "horse race" or "issue" commentary than for non…
Protecting Sacred Sites on Public Land
Protecting Sacred Sites on Public Land:Religion and Alliances in the Mato Tipila-Devils Tower Litigation Eric Freedman (bio) Conflicts over Native American sacred places on public lands usually involve multiple interest groups. That was true in a dispute over a National Park Service (nps) policy to discourage climbing at Devils Tower National Monument during the month of the Sun Dance. Such conflicts sometimes end in court, as happened when a gro…
Male and Female Sources in Newspaper Coverage of Male and Female Candidates in Open Races for Governor in 2002
This study assessed how capital city newspapers used male and female experts and nonexpert, uncommitted sources in covering open races for governorships in 2002. It examined 4 states with a female nominee and 5 states where both major candidates were male. Regardless of the candidates' gender, the overwhelming majority of nonpartisan sources cited were male. Female nonexpert sources appeared far less than their proportion in the population. The s…
Obstacles to the Professionalization of Mass Media in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Uzbekistan is the most populous and economically significant of the five Central Asian republics of the former USSR. Although authoritarian, its government appears to recognize the need to train journalists in Western journalistic theory and practice. The observations and experiences of the authors, as recent Fulbright-sponsored journalism scholars in Central Asia, are combined with limited sources on mass media in the region, to discuss the most…
When Indigenous Rights and Wilderness Collide
Dissent Events
Habeas Corpus
Journal Article Habeas Corpus: Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty Get access Freedman Eric M., Habeas Corpus: Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty. New York: New York University Press, 2001. x, 243 pp. $45.00. Kenneth M. Murchison Kenneth M. Murchison Louisiana State University Law Center Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 45, Issue 3, July 2001, Pages 343–344, http…
Public Access/Private Confession
Male and Female Sources in Newspaper Coverage of Male and Female Candidates in Open Races for Governor in 2002
This study assessed how capital city newspapers used male and female experts and nonexpert, uncommitted sources in covering open races for governorships in 2002. It examined 4 states with a female nominee and 5 states where both major candidates were male. Regardless of the candidates' gender, the overwhelming majority of nonpartisan sources cited were male. Female nonexpert sources appeared far less than their proportion in the population. The s…
Male and Female Sources in Newspaper Coverage of Male and Female Candidates in US Senate Races in 2004
This study assesses how the largest daily newspapers in states with female US Senate candidates in 2004 used non-partisan male and female expert and non-expert sources in covering campaigns. Using content analysis, it found that male, non-partisan sources appeared more frequently and prominently than did female sources. That difference was more than four times greater for expert sources who provided "horse race" or "issue" commentary than for non…
When Indigenous Rights and Wilderness Collide
Ethics and Journalism in Central Asia
Journalism faces a series of ethics crises, particularly in Central Asia because journalism is marked by wide ethical misbehavior including lack of balance and impartiality, using multiple fake names, selling and/or buying news, bribing journalists and others. This study analyzes professional ethical perspectives and practices of Central Asian journalists by examining and comparing the four former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajik…
Protecting Sacred Sites on Public Land
Protecting Sacred Sites on Public Land:Religion and Alliances in the Mato Tipila-Devils Tower Litigation Eric Freedman (bio) Conflicts over Native American sacred places on public lands usually involve multiple interest groups. That was true in a dispute over a National Park Service (nps) policy to discourage climbing at Devils Tower National Monument during the month of the Sun Dance. Such conflicts sometimes end in court, as happened when a gro…
In the crosshairs
Journalists covering environmental issues around the globe are at heightened risk of murder, arrest, assault, threats, self-exile, lawsuits, and harassment because environmental controversies often involve influential business and economic interests, political power battles, criminal activities, and corruption, plus politically, culturally, and economically sensitive issues concerning Indigenous rights to land and natural resources. This study us…
Barriers to Coverage of Transborder Environmental Issues in the Ferghana Valley of Central Asia
Three former Soviet republics occupy Central Asia's Ferghana Valley, a region of serious transborder environmental problems, especially ones that involve water and energy. Most news organizations in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan provide little in-depth coverage of these issues. Journalists in one country usually do not seek news sources in the others. Journalists and media experts cite such reasons as avoidance of controversy, self-censo…
Obstacles to the Professionalization of Mass Media in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Uzbekistan is the most populous and economically significant of the five Central Asian republics of the former USSR. Although authoritarian, its government appears to recognize the need to train journalists in Western journalistic theory and practice. The observations and experiences of the authors, as recent Fulbright-sponsored journalism scholars in Central Asia, are combined with limited sources on mass media in the region, to discuss the most…
Returning to the mission? Journalists after jail
A growing number of journalists across the world are in prison for practicing their profession in ways that antagonise regimes, militaries, oligarchs, and other powerful interests. There have been studies by academics and press rights defenders of why journalists get imprisoned. In addition, human rights and press rights NGOs have investigated prison conditions for journalists. However, there is little published research about what journalists do…
Real-World Learning of Public Affairs and Environmental Journalism
Traditionally, journalism majors gain professional experience before graduation through internships, part-time or summer jobs, and campus media. Those avenues are often insufficient to adequately prepare them for the professional workplace and professional standards. This essay explores two of a journalism school’s practice-based programs that provide such preparation: Capital News Service, covering state government, politics, and public policy, …
Deepening shadows
In March 2005, a relatively nonviolent uprising ousted an authoritarian president in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. In the aftermath of the so-called Tulip Revolution, press rights advocates and journalists welcomed the promise of greatly enhanced freedoms. However, the new regime proved to be as authoritarian and corrupt as its predecessor and little liberalization of the press system was evident five years later. Physical assaults co…
Press Constraints as Obstacles to Establishing Civil Societies in Central Asia
More than a decade and a half after independence, none of the press systems in Central Asia's five former Soviet republics are categorized as free, nor have any of these countries transitioned to democracy. The question becomes: Why have they failed to evolve into democratic nations after successfully rejecting Soviet domination and Russian colonialism? The Western-rooted development model assumes that democracy, media independence, free markets,…
Religious news and controversies in Central Asia
Religion, politics and public policy are tightly interwoven in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia, where regimes tightly control religion and domestic and foreign media. This case study examines how one Christian-oriented western news organisation, Forum 18, covers religion-related news. It finds that religious-affiliated news sources are cited more frequently and more prominently than official sources, that Forum 18 stories cover Christ…
Public Access/Private Confession
Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature
Devising Liberty
Journal Article Devising Liberty: Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American Republic Get access Konig David Thomas, ed., Devising Liberty: Preserving and Creating Freedom in the New American Republic. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 1995. xi, 383 pp. $45.00. Eric M. Freedman Eric M. Freedman Hofstra Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 41…
The sounds of silence
Journal Article The sounds of silence: Benjamin Fondane and the cinema Get access Eric Freedman Eric Freedman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 39, Issue 2, Summer 1998, Pages 164–174, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/39.2.164 Published: 01 July 1998
Public Access/Private Confession
Presidential Defiance of "Unconstitutional" Laws
The yet to be authorized 'line item veto' advocated by recent administrations pales in comparison to the 'absolute item veto' already wielded by an 'Imperial Presidency'. When the Executive refuses to enforce disfavored statutes, the effect is a veto without Congressional override. Can such a power be reconciled with our government scheme? A review of the Framer's intent shows that it was believed that the Constitution conferred on the Executive …
Habeas Corpus
Journal Article Habeas Corpus: Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty Get access Freedman Eric M., Habeas Corpus: Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty. New York: New York University Press, 2001. x, 243 pp. $45.00. Kenneth M. Murchison Kenneth M. Murchison Louisiana State University Law Center Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 45, Issue 3, July 2001, Pages 343–344, http…
When Indigenous Rights and Wilderness Collide
Dissent Events
Obstacles to the Professionalization of Mass Media in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Uzbekistan is the most populous and economically significant of the five Central Asian republics of the former USSR. Although authoritarian, its government appears to recognize the need to train journalists in Western journalistic theory and practice. The observations and experiences of the authors, as recent Fulbright-sponsored journalism scholars in Central Asia, are combined with limited sources on mass media in the region, to discuss the most…
Male and Female Sources in Newspaper Coverage of Male and Female Candidates in Open Races for Governor in 2002
This study assessed how capital city newspapers used male and female experts and nonexpert, uncommitted sources in covering open races for governorships in 2002. It examined 4 states with a female nominee and 5 states where both major candidates were male. Regardless of the candidates' gender, the overwhelming majority of nonpartisan sources cited were male. Female nonexpert sources appeared far less than their proportion in the population. The s…
Richard Weisberg
Cet article constitue un point de vue personnel sur l’oeuvre de Richard Weisberg dans le domaine du droit et littérature. Il souligne ses démarches et ses cheminements, en analysant brièvement quelques-unes de ses grilles de lecture. Weisberg suggère que seule une lecture éveillée mène à l’appréhension du droit juste et à la compréhension de ce qu’est la droiture
Religious news and controversies in Central Asia
Religion, politics and public policy are tightly interwoven in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia, where regimes tightly control religion and domestic and foreign media. This case study examines how one Christian-oriented western news organisation, Forum 18, covers religion-related news. It finds that religious-affiliated news sources are cited more frequently and more prominently than official sources, that Forum 18 stories cover Christ…
Male and Female Sources in Newspaper Coverage of Male and Female Candidates in US Senate Races in 2004
This study assesses how the largest daily newspapers in states with female US Senate candidates in 2004 used non-partisan male and female expert and non-expert sources in covering campaigns. Using content analysis, it found that male, non-partisan sources appeared more frequently and prominently than did female sources. That difference was more than four times greater for expert sources who provided "horse race" or "issue" commentary than for non…
Protecting Sacred Sites on Public Land
Protecting Sacred Sites on Public Land:Religion and Alliances in the Mato Tipila-Devils Tower Litigation Eric Freedman (bio) Conflicts over Native American sacred places on public lands usually involve multiple interest groups. That was true in a dispute over a National Park Service (nps) policy to discourage climbing at Devils Tower National Monument during the month of the Sun Dance. Such conflicts sometimes end in court, as happened when a gro…
Press Constraints as Obstacles to Establishing Civil Societies in Central Asia
More than a decade and a half after independence, none of the press systems in Central Asia's five former Soviet republics are categorized as free, nor have any of these countries transitioned to democracy. The question becomes: Why have they failed to evolve into democratic nations after successfully rejecting Soviet domination and Russian colonialism? The Western-rooted development model assumes that democracy, media independence, free markets,…
Deepening shadows
In March 2005, a relatively nonviolent uprising ousted an authoritarian president in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. In the aftermath of the so-called Tulip Revolution, press rights advocates and journalists welcomed the promise of greatly enhanced freedoms. However, the new regime proved to be as authoritarian and corrupt as its predecessor and little liberalization of the press system was evident five years later. Physical assaults co…
Molten Light
We usually view photographs without hearing from those pictured or from the photographers who took them. An international project, “Molten Light: The Intertwined History of Steel and Photography,” seeks to bridge this gap by integrating oral histories with a multinational photographic exhibition that explores the intertwined histories of steel and photography. The exhibition and related books and educational materials will incorporate interviews …
Barriers to Coverage of Transborder Environmental Issues in the Ferghana Valley of Central Asia
Three former Soviet republics occupy Central Asia's Ferghana Valley, a region of serious transborder environmental problems, especially ones that involve water and energy. Most news organizations in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan provide little in-depth coverage of these issues. Journalists in one country usually do not seek news sources in the others. Journalists and media experts cite such reasons as avoidance of controversy, self-censo…
Real-World Learning of Public Affairs and Environmental Journalism
Traditionally, journalism majors gain professional experience before graduation through internships, part-time or summer jobs, and campus media. Those avenues are often insufficient to adequately prepare them for the professional workplace and professional standards. This essay explores two of a journalism school’s practice-based programs that provide such preparation: Capital News Service, covering state government, politics, and public policy, …
Spectatorship
Returning to the mission? Journalists after jail
A growing number of journalists across the world are in prison for practicing their profession in ways that antagonise regimes, militaries, oligarchs, and other powerful interests. There have been studies by academics and press rights defenders of why journalists get imprisoned. In addition, human rights and press rights NGOs have investigated prison conditions for journalists. However, there is little published research about what journalists do…
Ethics and Journalism in Central Asia
Journalism faces a series of ethics crises, particularly in Central Asia because journalism is marked by wide ethical misbehavior including lack of balance and impartiality, using multiple fake names, selling and/or buying news, bribing journalists and others. This study analyzes professional ethical perspectives and practices of Central Asian journalists by examining and comparing the four former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajik…
In the crosshairs
Journalists covering environmental issues around the globe are at heightened risk of murder, arrest, assault, threats, self-exile, lawsuits, and harassment because environmental controversies often involve influential business and economic interests, political power battles, criminal activities, and corruption, plus politically, culturally, and economically sensitive issues concerning Indigenous rights to land and natural resources. This study us…
Central Asian Journalism Studies
This exploratory study analyses growing pressures on faculty in Central Asia to publish research in high-quality international journals and how faculty attempt to meet publishing mandates from institutions and ministries motivated to join world rankings. This is important because of the scarcity of Central Asian scholarship in peer-reviewed journalism and mass communication (J&MC) journals due to the exceptional challenges faculty face publishing…
Publish or Perish? The Steep, Steep Path for Central Asia Journalism and Mass Communication Faculty
Journalism and mass communication faculty in Central Asian countries face increased institution and government pressure to produce research that appears in Scopus-indexed publications. This study interviews faculty members in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to examine how they attempt to meet these publication requirements. The findings suggest a disturbing research environment where some faculty resort to unethical means, such as buying and selling re…
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