Frank LoMonte
{{short description|American lawyer}}
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Frank D. LoMonte is an American lawyer and journalist known for his press freedom advocacy.{{cite news |last1=Teehan |first1=Daniel |title=Breaking the back of Hazelwood: a press lawyer's decade-long campaign |url=https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2017/breaking-the-back-of-hazelwood-a-press-lawyers-decade-long-campaign/ |access-date=January 27, 2021 |work=Poynter |date=July 17, 2017}}{{cite podcast |last1=Nichols-Pethick |first1=Jonathan |title="Show your work": A Conversation with Frank LoMonte |url=https://www.modernmediapodcast.org/blog/2018/4/27/show-your-work-a-conversation-with-frank-lomonte |website=Modern Media |publisher=Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media at DePauw University |access-date=January 27, 2021 |date=April 27, 2018}} He is legal counsel at CNN and adjunct professor at the University of Georgia School of Law.{{Cite web |title=Frank Daniel LoMonte {{!}} University of Georgia School of Law |url=https://www.law.uga.edu/profile/frank-daniel-lomonte |access-date=2023-11-29 |website=www.law.uga.edu}} He was the director of the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information, part of the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications from 2017 to 2022,{{Cite web |last=Wagner |first=Sue |date=2022-02-01 |title=Brechner Center Director Frank LoMonte Joins CNN as Legal Counsel |url=https://www.jou.ufl.edu/2022/02/01/brechner-center-director-frank-lomonte-joins-cnn-as-legal-counsel/ |access-date=2023-11-29 |website=UF College of Journalism and Communications |language=en-US}} and was previously the executive director of the Student Press Law Center from 2008 to 2017.
Early life and education
LoMonte attended Georgia State University, graduating in 1994, and received his J.D. from the University of Georgia in 2000.{{cite web |title=Frank LoMonte, J.D. |url=https://www.jou.ufl.edu/staff/frank-lomonte/ |website=UF College of Journalism and Communications |publisher=University of Florida |access-date=January 27, 2021}}
Career
LoMonte practiced law with Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP and clerked for judges in the Northern District of Georgia and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
In 2008, LoMonte became the executive director of the Student Press Law Center. During his tenure, he focused on New Voices, a campaign to pass legislation protecting student press freedom, and on Active Voice, a program to empower female student journalists. {{As of|2020}}, New Voices legislation has been passed in 14 states,{{cite web |title=New Voices |url=https://splc.org/new-voices/ |publisher=Student Press Law Center |access-date=January 27, 2021 |date=August 6, 2018}} outlawing many instances of prior review and censorship of student media by school administrators, and restoring the more lenient Tinker standard that was overturned in the 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier Supreme Court decision.{{cite news |last1=McIntosh |first1=Robert |title='New Voices' legislation advances in Nebraska and Arkansas |url=https://www.thefire.org/new-voices-legislation-advances-in-nebraska-and-arkansas/ |access-date=January 27, 2021 |publisher=Foundation for Individual Rights in Education |date=March 1, 2019}}
In August 2017, LoMonte was named the director of the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information, part of the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications.{{cite news |title=Student Press Law leader to head Brechner Freedom of Information Center |url=http://www.snpa.org/stories/brechner,4129694 |access-date=January 27, 2021 |work=Southern Newspaper Publishers Association |date=April 4, 2017 |language=en}}
LoMonte joined CNN in February 2022 as legal counsel.
LoMonte is regularly cited in the media as a legal expert on press freedom and freedom of information issues.
Recognition
LoMonte has been recognized for his work on a number of occasions. In 2016, he was placed on the Freedom to Read Foundation's Roll of Honor.{{cite web |title=Roll of Honor |url=https://www.ftrf.org/page/Honor |website=Freedom to Read Foundation |publisher=American Library Association |access-date=January 27, 2021}} In 2017, the College Media Association named a journalism ethics award in his honor.{{cite news |title=College Media Association Announces Creation of The Frank LoMonte Ethics in Journalism Award |url=http://www.collegemedia.org/news/article_c3d56284-bf04-11e7-9e6a-a3bcc3e3a4a8.html |access-date=January 27, 2021 |work=College Media Association |date=November 1, 2017 |language=en}} In 2018, he received the National Press Photographers Association's Alicia Calzada First Amendment Award.{{cite news |title=Burnett, Tompkins Win NPPA's Sprague Award |url=https://nppa.org/news/burnett-tompkins-win-nppas-sprague-award |access-date=January 27, 2021 |work=National Press Photographers Association |date=January 8, 2018 |language=en}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.law.uga.edu/profile/frank-daniel-lomonte University of Georgia School of Law faculty page]
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Category:Georgia (U.S. state) lawyers
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