Deborah Fisher is director of the John Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence in First Amendment Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. She was a journalist for 25 years, many of those years as a senior editor. She has served as editor at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and senior editor for news at The Tennessean in Nashville. She also is executive director of a nonprofit, the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government.

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