Word: cranberg
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...potentially quicker and better way to achieve all that is arbitration, now being tested in a Libel Dispute Resolution Program at the University of Iowa, run by three professors, including Gilbert Cranberg, a former editorial- page editor of the Des Moines Register. In some 30 cases to be handled over the next two years, both sides must waive the right to file suit. In exchange there are supervised negotiating sessions, a possible factual hearing on whether a statement was false and damaging -- without considering whether the error met the legal "malice" standard -- and ultimately arbitration. Remedies imposed against a media...
...said Kaufman, "a retraction may serve as a more realistic balm for ravaged reputations than does monetary compensation." Libel plaintiffs may agree, according to Gilbert Cranberg, Gallup Professor of Journalism at the University of Iowa. In his study of some 114 cases, he says, plaintiffs show "great interest in vindication rather than money...