Joel Moroney 

jmoroney@vols.utk.edu

Joel Moroney has more than two decades of experience as a criminal justice reporter, journalist, and commercial legal writer. Moroney spent nearly ten years as a newspaper reporter for Gannett in both Ohio (Mansfield News Journal) and Florida (Fort Myers News-Press) before starting Law Firm Ghost Writer LLC, which provided website content for law firms nationwide. He earned an undergraduate degree in journalism from The Ohio State University and a Master’s of Science in Communication and Information from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Research interests

Media’s impact on fair-trial rights

Advisor

Professor Mark Harmon