I am excited to welcome Victoria Smith Ekstrand as a guest blogger! 

Victoria Smith Ekstrand is an associate professor at Bowling Green State University, where she teaches media law, public relations, and graduate courses in legal theory and pedagogy. She has an affiliate appointment with BGSU's Department of American Culture Studies. She studies the tensions between intellectual property and First Amendment law and is the author of News Piracy and the Hot News Doctrine: Origins in Law and Implications for the Digital Age (2005).

Before attending the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for her doctorate, she was Director of Corporate Communications for The Associated Press in New York City, where she handled media relations and employee and marketing communications for the news service. She worked for the AP for nine years, and before that worked for the Arbitron Company and for radio stations in upstate New York, New York City, and Long Island.

Please join me in welcoming Victoria to the CMLP blogroll!