Morgan Weiland is a J.D.-Ph.D. candidate at Stanford Law School and the Stanford Communication Department. A Stanford Graduate Fellow, her research is focused on the intersection of law, American journalism, and networked media.
Currently a 1L, Weiland's CIS research project will explore fundamental First Amendment questions raised by the interaction of networked media and a post-industrial economy: Who is a journalist? And what is journalism? These questions will be rooted in the history of journalism and will have a normative orientation toward protecting the public good of a free press and the democratic values underlying it.
Before coming to Stanford, Weiland was a Research Project Manager at Media Matters for America, a media watchdog in Washington, D.C. She also has worked as a journalist on Capitol Hill and has written for the Bureau of National Affairs and Elsevier. Weiland has a BA in Political Science and Cinema & Media Studies from Carleton College.