Newhouse School of Communications

Jay Wright
Professor, COM

B.S.J Northwestern University
M.S.J Northwestern University
Ph.D. Syracuse University, 1977
M.S.L. Yale Law School, 1979

Office: Newhouse 1 Rm. 510
Telephone: (315) 443-2381
Email: jbwright@syr.edu

Jay Wright is one the school's two new Newhouse Endowed Chairs of Public Communications.  In 2001 he was Syracuse University's Scholar/Teacher of the Year -- the only Newhouse professor to be so honored.

He is the co-author of three books on communications law -- The First Amendment and the Fourth Estate and The First Amendment and the Fifth Estate (both published by The Foundation Press) and The Legal Handbook for New York State Journalists (published by the New York State Bar Association). He edited the New York State chapter for Tapping Officials' Secrets, a national compendium of information on state open records laws and open meetings laws (published by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press).

Professor Wright was a Ford Foundation Fellow at Yale Law School. He has been an Adjunct Professor at the S.U. College of Law and is a former Chair of the Law Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).

He was an advertising agency copywriter and newspaper columnist and is a former member of the faculties of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and the Defense Information School. For many years he was a consultant to the New York State Office of Court Administration and the Executive Director of the New York Fair Trial Free Press Conference, a statewide bench - bar - press organization chaired by the Chief Judge of the State of New York.

Expertise:

• Law (Communications, First Amendment)