Hargrove Colloquium 2026

Monday, April 6, 2026 @ 7:00 pm

The Center for Media Law and Policy organizes and hosts the Wade H. Hargrove Media Law and Policy Colloquium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The colloquium was established in 2009 to honor Wade Hargrove, a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the UNC School of Law, and to provide a forum for the discussion of media law and media policy issues. It was funded in part by Hearst Communications, the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters, and the North Carolina Cable Telecommunications Association to recognize the more than 30 years of service that Mr. Hargrove provided to these organizations as well as media and technology companies throughout North Carolina and the nation.

The colloquium is a world-class event that draws attendees from both industry and academia. Speakers have included David Barrett, former Chairman and CEO of Hearst Television Inc.; Ben Sherwood, former President, Disney|ABC Television; Floyd Abrams, Senior Counsel at Cahill Gordon & Reindel; David Cohen, Ambassador to Canada and former Senior Executive Vice President of Comcast Corp.; David McCraw, Deputy General Counsel at The New York Times Co.; Ruth Okediji, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center; Nadine Farid Johnson, Policy Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; and Lyrissa Lidsky, Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Chair in U.S. Constitutional Law at the University of Florida. Past colloquia have been televised by C-SPAN and UNC-TV.

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