The News Media & The Law
November 1, 2011
When the country’s head archivist David Ferriero is asked about the most modern problems plaguing federal records management, he likes to explain by telling the story of the first man who had...
The News Media & The Law
November 1, 2011
Cloud computing may seem like a high-in-the-sky concept to the less tech-aware, but the term represents a very tangible trend sweeping the world of information technology.
The basic difference...
The News Media & The Law
November 1, 2011
A recent series of open records requests for the email messages of public university professors has triggered a debate about the extent to which the right to academic freedom can coexist with the...
The News Media & The Law
November 1, 2011
In March, the Wisconsin Republican Party filed a request under the state’s Open Records Law seeking all 2011 email messages of William Cronen, a professor of history, geography, and...
The News Media & The Law
November 1, 2011
When John Hoff mans his post on Guard Tower 6 at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, he often wonders what went wrong.
It’s not a terrorist, a vehicle-born improvised explosive device, or an...
The News Media & The Law
November 1, 2011
A journalist’s ability to interview sources about foreign and national security issues got a boost recently when a federal appellate court found that the U.S. government’s wiretapping of...
The News Media & The Law
November 1, 2011
When the arraignment of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the Saudi-born detainee accused of masterminding the deadly USS Cole bombing in 2000, goes forward at Guantanamo Bay in November, the alleged...
The News Media & The Law
November 1, 2011
By Kristen Rasmussen
Google’s self-stated mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” may apply with less force when it is the...
The News Media & The Law
November 1, 2011
Ron Sylvester, who witnessed his newsroom’s switch from typewriters to computers, likes to tell the story of when he realized that everything in journalism had really changed.
In 2008, The...
The News Media & The Law
November 1, 2011
Although defamation cases based on Twitter posts are generally subject to the same standards, at least one court has ruled that the “freewheeling, anything-goes” nature of the Internet...
