Sam Terilli, J.D. Assistant Professor, Journalism

Sam Terilli holds a J. D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

He practiced media, commercial and employment law for 24 years, including 12 years as the General Counsel of the Miami Herald Publishing Company and 6 years as a partner in a national law firm. He has served on the Miami Herald's editorial board for six years, writing editorials and columns, and spent two extended assignments in the Herald's newsroom, once to lead a reorganization of the news operations and once as a working reporting and editor to study the news operations. He has published several articles on media law and management issues. His research interests include privacy, defamation, commercial speech, access to public records and other information controlled by government, newsroom management, media ethics and history, and the relationships between expression and litigation.

Sam Terilli
School of Communication
Frances L. Wolfson Building 2015
5100 Brunson Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146
Phone: (305) 284-8451
Fax: (305) 284-3648
E-mail: sterilli@miami.edu