The News Media and The Law, Winter 2003

 

 

The ups and downs of covering the homefront

Cover Story

 

Journalists anticipate new challenges in covering Homeland Security department

Freedom of Information

 

Ridge record on open government called 'mixed bag'

 

Homeland Security Department releases first FOI regs

Reporter's Privilege

 

Handling of subpoenas under DHS worries journalists

 

 

Federal officials and media have Dialogue over secrecy

Freedom of Information

 

Homeland Security Act blocks unclassified information from public, protects the companies that provide it

Newsgathering

 

Will a history of government using journalists repeat itself under the Department of Homeland Security?

 

 

New Weblog goes behind covering the homefront

Secret Courts

 

Secrecy makes status of detainees difficult to track

Newsgathering

 

The press preps for war hopeful, skeptical

 

Statement of Principles

 

Mass purchase of newspapers violates First Amendment rights

 

Hockey-fan-turned-author wins appeal, returns to selling books outside Chicago hockey arena

Secret Courts

 

Courts reexamine access to jury information

 

Philadelphia Inquirer asks U.S. Supreme Court to review ban that kept media from interviewing jurors

 

District Attorney petitions appeals court to vacate judge's order permitting 'Frontline' to tape jury

 

Guidelines for covering jurors

Freedom of Information

 

DEA analyst given one-year jail sentence for leaking unclassified information

 

Appeals Court rules that government cannot withhold information on official in the name of privacy

 

Court-ordered release of adjusted census data spawns debate over accuracy of original count

 

Official 2000 census count and adjusted figures differ by up to two percent in some states

 

Gun-owner privacy and freedom of information soon will duel in U.S. Supreme Court

 

Public hospital is forced by state supreme court to release employee information to newspaper

 

 

From the hotline

Libel

 

Questions of Internet jurisdiction spin web of confusion for online publishers

 

Critics question constitutionality of criminal libel laws

 

Dow Jones asks U.S. court to stop Harrods libel suit in Britain

Reporter's Privilege

 

Tribunal win may influence other courts

 

Compendium tracks reporter's privilege laws

Content Regulation

 

FCC cannot mandate video descriptions

 

New Hampshire Supreme Court rules in favor of cameras in courtrooms; other courts limit access

 

 

Open & Shut

 

Sources & Citations