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The News Media and The Law, Fall 2008

 

Publisher Lucy A. Dalglish

Editor Gregg P. Leslie

Managing Editor Kathleen Cullinan

Contributors Cristina Abello, Hannah Bergman, Rory Easburg, Samantha Fredrickson, Jason Wiederin, Jordan Zappala

Administration Lois Lloyd, Victor Gaberman, Maria Gowen

 

RCFP Steering Committee

Dan Abrams, MSNBC

Scott Applewhite, The Associated Press

Chip Bok, Akron Beacon Journal

Earl Caldwell, Pacifica Radio

Walter Cronkite, CBS News

Richard S. Dunham, Houston Chronicle

Ashlea Ebeling, Forbes Magazine

Steve Geimann, Bloomberg News

Fred Graham, Court TV

John C. Henry, The Associated Press

Nat Hentoff, The Village Voice

Stephen Labaton, The New York Times

Neil Lewis, The New York Times

Dahlia Lithwick, Slate

Tony Mauro, Legal Times

Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times

Eunice Moscoso, Cox Newspapers

Sandra Peddie, Newsday

Dana Priest, The Washington Post

Dan Rather, HDNet

Cristine Russell, Freelance

Tim Russert, NBC News

Bob Schieffer, CBS News

Gerald F. Seib, The Wall Street Journal

Saundra Torry, USA Today

Vickie Walton-James, Tribune Publishing

Judy Woodruff, PBS/The News Hour

Affiliations appear for purposes of identification.

The Reporters Committee would like to thank The Associated Press for permission to use photos from its files.

 

The News Media and The Law, Fall 2008

Fall 2008
Vol. 32, No. 4

Hurricane "W":

How the Bush Administration has fundamentally changed issues of access, openness and freedom of information

Editorial

 

Cleaning up after Hurricane "W"

Cover Story

 

Reeling from Hurricane "W"

Secret Courts

 

Behind closed courtroom doors

Freedom of Information

 

White House records and the big chill

Reporter's Privilege

 

Tapping into the reporter's notebook

 

 

The FCC reaches for the mute button

Reporter's Privilege

 

A reporter's privilege in tatters

 

 

On the states' side

Freedom of Information

 

When an agency isn't quite an agency

 

Mining for records when open records laws do not apply

 

He can take the secrecy when he goes

 

 

From the Hotline

 

Jack Landau, first executive director of the Reporters Committee, 'First Amendment guerilla,' dies at 74

Freedom of Information

 

Transparency on the campaign trail

 

With the power of FOIA

Libel

 

Reporting in the wake of Hatfill

 

Lawmakers push back on libel tourism

Reporter's Privilege

 

Guarding the unnamed writers of the Internet

 

What's up with Wyoming and the reporter's privilege?

Secret Courts

 

Sealed in the heart of Texas

 

 

Open & Shut

 

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