Whether fielding one of the hundreds of calls that flood the North Carolina Press Association’s legal hotline each year or fighting to keep a courtroom open, Amanda Martin enjoys combining her undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Florida and her law degree from the University of North Carolina.

Ms. Martin serves as General Counsel to the N.C. Press Association, a membership organization of approximately 200 North Carolina newspapers, and N.C. Press Services. She routinely counsels reporters and editors about resisting subpoenas, avoiding libel suits, or gaining access to closed government meetings and records. Ms. Martin has enhanced and applied her media law concentration as an adjunct instructor in media law at UNC School of Law, Campbell University School of Law and the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communications. She is a frequent speaker and panelist at media law forums and workshops, including the NCPA’s Newspaper Academy, UNC’s Festival of Legal Learning, the Media and the Law Seminar in Kansas City, Mo., and Media Law in the Digital Age. Ms. Martin is an author and co-editor of the North Carolina Media Law Handbook, and she regularly contributes articles to legal and media law newsletters and other publications.

Ms. Martin also counsels clients on internet-related issues, trademark, copyright and other intellectual property matters as well as representing corporations in employment issues.

Ms. Martin’s professional activities have included serving as a director of the Wake County Bar Association and editor of its newsletter, chairing the N.C. Bar Association’s Constitutional Rights and Responsibility Section Council and serving on the Litigation Section Council of the N.C. Bar Association. She enjoys reading, cooking, and travel and is an active member of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church.