Nicholas Johnson Writing

Archives (a very limited sample of writing prior to April 1996)

Bibliography (a 300-plus-page listing of writing, appearances, etc.)

Iowa City Community School District Board Policies (formerly only in hard copy, Johnson put online)

Iowa City Press-Citizen columns (October 1998-present; K-12 education subjects)

Recent Publications (full text of writing and speeches since April 1996)

School Board Writing (writing on K-12 issues before, and since, September 1998 election)

Search this Site (a key word search engine for much of this site)

Teaching (texts, links, student papers)

"A Day in the Life" (Yale Law Journal (1973) critique of FCC decision making process)

"An Autonomous Media" (background paper on U.S. media, the First Amendment and media law, prepared for Former Soviet Union journalists at the Commission on Radio and Television Policy-Aspen Institute Session, May 4-7, 1994)

"General Semantics: The Next Generation" ([Institute of General Semantics] General Semantics
Bulletin, Number 63, November 1996)

"Governing America: 'What do you mean?' and 'How do you know?'" (text of the April 3, 1997, keynote address to a Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-sponsored conference of eastern Iowa high school students; a Kettering Foundation "National Issues Forum" with the Grant Wood Area Education Agency; at the Hoover Library in West Branch, Iowa)

"Liz Mathis' Media Law & Ethics Class" (transcript of an hour-long Iowa Communications Network video
conference involving a presentation by, and interview of, Nicholas Johnson by Liz Mathis and her Media Law & Ethics class at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, April 9, 1997. The topics touched on range from broadcast history, through censorship, copyright and cyberlaw, the Fairness Doctrine, liquor advertising, the declining role of geography and the nation-state, and the role of "sub-governments" in understanding power in Washington -- for starters.)

"Searching for the Right Word: The Language of Heterosexual Relationships" (ETC. (1979), Journal of the International Society of General Semantics)

"So You Want to be a Lawyer: A Play in Four Acts" (useful suggestions for any aspiring professional-to-be)

How to Talk Back to Your Television Set (Little Brown, 1970) [full text of entire book]

Test Pattern for Living (Bantam, 1972) [full text of entire book]
 

Bulgaria (general reference sites and Johnson's work on media law and policy, and K-12 education, during a September 10-19, 1999 USIA/USIS-sponsored visit to Bulgaria)

Domrin, Alexander N. (a friend and regular visitor from Moscow to the UI College of Law)

Family (links to sites about, or created for, members of Johson's family)

Georgia media (Johnson's ABA/CEELI media law and policy work with this former Soviet Republic)

Journalist in Cyberspace (papers, photos and reports from the Warsaw, Poland, conference)

Mason House Inn, Bentonsport, Iowa (Nicholas Johnson's favorite 150-year-old bed and breakfast retreat; site now maintained by Sheral and Bill McDermet, Innkeepers)

School Board (Iowa City Community School District site created by Johnson)

Wendell Johnson (Johnson's memorial to his father, a speech pathology and general semantics pioneer)

(Note that video samples of Nicholas Johnson public appearances are available from this site.)

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