JOLT is hosting its annual student writing competition and is accepting submissions on a topic related to law and technology. Submissions should be 15,000 words or less (including footnotes) and must be previously unpublished. Footnotes must conform to Bluebook citation. If your article is published before we inform you about our decision, please withdraw your submission.

Submission deadline: 
Friday, May 12, 2023 at 5:00 pm. If you cannot make this deadline, please let us know in advance and we can potentially grant an extension.

Prizes:
First place receives publication in JOLT’s Fall 2023 issue and a $600 prize. Second place receives a $400 prize.

Requirements:
To apply, please send an email to jolt@lawnet.ucla.edu with the subject “JOLT Writing Competition” and please include the following in your email:

(1) one Microsoft Word document that includes an abstract of at least 150 words, an article table of contents, and the article; and
(2) the author’s resume or curriculum vitae in Microsoft Word or PDF format.

We look forward to reviewing your submissions!

Date: Friday, March 3 – Saturday March 4

Time: Friday, March 3: 10:00 AM – 5:15 PM | Saturday, March 4: 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Where: Law School Room 1347

Reception to follow after Friday’s event. To register, please visit: https://forms.gle/L8P4GiexfguyWyoT7

Fact-based journalism is essential to public health, development, and accountable governance. The increasing dominance of online platforms over our public sphere has led to an uneasy relationship between news organizations and large tech companies. While the latter have generated new opportunities to connect journalists with audiences, evade censorship, and engage in influential cross-border collaborations, they have also forced journalists to contend with shifting algorithmic priorities, warped incentive structures in the online economy, and an increasingly complex array of technology policies that shape the environment in which they work and the business models for sustainability. Perhaps most urgently, the platformization of journalism has contributed to a crisis in funding in which quality journalism, particularly locally-focused and investigative journalism, has struggled to figure out how to navigate sustainability in the information age.

This Symposium, which is organized by the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy, is intended to respond to the recent wave of legislative proposals aimed at supporting sustainable journalism by considering the trade-offs, challenges and opportunities related to various legislative interventions, with an eye to developing better practice regulatory standards, and a clear roadmap for how institutions should promote quality journalism.

JOLT will publish a Special Issue on platforms and the press, which we will discuss on a panel with the authors at the Symposium.

This event is sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

For more information, please visit: https://itlp.law.ucla.edu/special-issue-symposium/

We look forward to seeing you! Please feel free to contact us at itlp@law.ucla.edu if you need any further information.