Terry MAGUIRE is a media lawyer and consultant with more than thirty-five years of experience in a wide variety of media sectors and issues.

MAGUIRE graduated from Brown University in 1969 and went on to do public affairs, magazine journalism, and regulatory administration as an officer in the US Coast Guard, obtaining his law degree with honors from the George Washington University in 1975. He completed master’s degree coursework at the same time at the American University in communications. MAGUIRE is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia as well as in Florida (inactive), and before the US Supreme Court and other federal courts.

He was employed by two organizations in the 1970s – winding up as general counsel to the National Newspaper Association where he worked on a wide range of management issues for smaller newspapers, and served as attorney-advisor at the Federal Communications Commission with a special focus on radio and television, including work in the Chairman’s office.

The American Newspaper Publishers Association tapped him to be its first in-house general counsel in the late 1970s. He served in that role until 1992, becoming senior vice president of what was the largest media association in the world at that time. His responsibilities included acting as advisor to the association’s monthly magazine, presstime, as well as overseeing all electronic media initiatives on behalf of the 1,400 daily newspaper members of the ANPA. He also was responsible for the human resources work of the association and was the Association’s chief lobbyist and international representative.

Among other work, he played a key role in the establishment of the Libel Defense Resource Center, now the Media Law Resource Center, in New York.

After leaving ANPA, MAGUIRE broadened his experience. He became more active in the largest French language newspaper in the US of which he was one of three owners for about 20 years. With a former Washington Post editor, he helped organize the launch of a new electronic news service from the former Soviet Union, including the opening of offices in cities like Kiev and Alma Ata. He worked as a consultant for newspapers in the US and for many overseas, including the Nation (Nairobi) and The Irish Times (Dublin). He helped both newspapers with their strategic planning, especially as it related to new media.

He took on the added role of general counsel to the World Association of Newspapers (Paris) and later became counsel to the European Newspaper Publishers Association (Brussels). MAGUIRE is a citizen of Ireland and of the US.

He helped run the world’s first interactive daily newspaper (before the internet), serving as its general counsel, and advised the first newspaper on the internet – L’Unione Sarda (Cagliari).

IBM asked him to help them better serve the needs of media customers of all kinds and he became managing principal for global media consulting.

He then was asked to help the World Bank exploit what was a newly-launched multinational, multilingual website called the Development Gateway, the largest serving the multi-everything needs of the developing world. He worked on that project for nearly two years, most of it as editor. Later, he worked with the World Bank on an assessment of the legal environment for civic engagement in Albania, and has been asked to help the Bank advise developing countries on freedom of expression, the press and information.

Of special interest has been his work to organize the Mediterranean Media Center to be based in Nice. He has also become a director of the Institut de Francais of Washington, continued his more than 25 year service as a member of the Advisory Board of the Media Law Reporter, and works with newspapers and media organizations in the US and many countries overseas, based from Nice in France and in North Carolina.

He has served in Monaco as an advisor to Prince Albert’s Monaco Media Forum, the first event for which took place in October, 2006. (The last Monaco Media Forum was in November, 2008.)

MAGUIRE is actively involved in several dozen websites, blogs, e-mail services and other print and electronic publications and services.