Whether fielding one of the hundreds of calls that flood the North
Carolina Press Association's legal hotline each year or opposing the
closing of a courtroom, Amanda Martin enjoys combining her undergraduate
degree in journalism from the University of Florida and her law degree
from the University of North Carolina. Ms. Martin is General Counsel
to the NC Press Association, a membership organization of approximately
200 North Carolina newspapers, and NC Press Services. Ms. Martin routinely
counsels reporters and editors about resisting subpoenas, avoiding
libel suits, or gaining access to closed government meetings and records.
Ms. Martin has enhanced and applied her media law concentration as
an adjunct instructor in Media Law at UNC School of Law and as an
adjunct instructor in Mass Communication Law and Ethics at the UNC
School of Journalism and Mass Communications. She is a frequent speaker
and panelist at media law forums and workshops. In 2007, Ms. Martin,
Mr. Stevens and UNC Professor Cathy Packer co-edited a new edition
of the North Carolina Media Law Handbook. She regularly contributes
articles to legal and media law newsletters and other publications.
Ms. Martin also handles trademark, copyright and other intellectual
property matters as well as representing corporations employment issues.
Ms. Martin's professional activities have included serving as a director
of the Wake County Bar Association and editor of its newsletter. She
is a founding member of the Chief Justice's Media Forum, which promotes
bench/bar/press relations in North Carolina, and serves as the chairman
of the NC Bar Association's Constitutional Rights and Responsibility
Section Council. She enjoys reading, cooking, travel and is an active
member of St. Michael's Episcopal Church.
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