The News Media & The Law
November 1, 2008
From the Fall 2008 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 21.
Let’s say you send an open records request to the Smithsonian Institution, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting or the U.S...
The News Media & The Law
November 1, 2008
From the Fall 2008 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 5.
The courts have historically been open in America. But after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, this presumption was turned on its...
The News Media & The Law
August 1, 2008
From the Summer 2008 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 12.
Before they are keepsakes, relegated to storage boxes and pinned to office walls, media credentials for political conventions are...
The News Media & The Law
August 1, 2008
From the Summer 2008 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 14.
When customs agents seized freelance journalist Bill Hogan’s laptop earlier this year and searched his digital camera, he...
The News Media & The Law
August 1, 2008
From the Summer 2008 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 16.
Everybody deserves a day in court when it comes to requesting federal agency documents, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
The...
The News Media & The Law
August 1, 2008
From the Summer 2008 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 21.
They have the records . . . or they don’t. They aren’t meant to be released to the public . . . or they are, but...
The News Media & The Law
August 1, 2008
From the Summer 2008 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 27.
Going to jail for refusing to reveal confidential sources may grab a reporter headlines, but criminal libel — one of...
The News Media & The Law
August 1, 2008
From the Summer 2008 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 29.
Most journalists know they could not get many stories without the benefit of some hard-won and — hopefully — now well-...
The News Media & The Law
August 1, 2008
From the Summer 2008 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 6.
In 2003, as the federal court system prepared to beef up its collection of criminal cases on the Internet, broadening access to...
The News Media & The Law
August 1, 2008
From the Summer 2008 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 4.
In 2004, Sean Bucci stood accused of selling thousands of pounds of marijuana on what he believed was flimsy evidence presented by...
