International Media Law Center Taps Balough for Board

The Center for International Media Law and Policy Studies has named Richard C. Balough to serve on the Center’s Advisory Board.

The newly created Center focuses on studying legal protection for media rights in the United States and the world.  It is part of the School of Journalism at Indiana University, Bloomington.  The Center’s mission includes engaging in applied and theoretical research about free expression of rights and educating the public about free expression issues.

Balough Law Offices, LLC counsels clients on privacy and media law issues.  The firm represented the defendant in one of the first libel cases concerning a tweet on Twitter.  Mr. Balough graduated from IU with a degree in journalism and government.  He also has a JD and LLMs in Intellectual Property and Information Technology and Privacy Law.

Other board members include former U.S. Representative Lee H. Hamilton; Victor Jackovich, a former U.S. ambassador to Bosnia and Slovenia; Timothy A. Franklin, managing editor in the Washington, D.C. bureau of Bloomberg News; Simon Morrison, public policy manager for Google in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia; and Karen Braeckel, director of the Hoosier State Press Association Foundation.