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The News Media and The Law, Winter 2008

 

Publisher Lucy A. Dalglish

Editor Gregg P. Leslie

Managing Editor Jennifer Koons

Contributors Scott Albright, Matthew Pollack and Corinna Zarek

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

Rebecca Carr, Cox Newspapers

Walter Cronkite, CBS News

Richard S. Dunham, Houston Chronicle

Ashlea Ebeling, Forbes Magazine

Steve Geimann, Bloomberg News

Fred Graham, Court TV

Stephen Henderson, Detroit Free Press

John C. Henry, The Associated Press

Nat Hentoff, The Village Voice

Edward H. Kohn, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Stephen Labaton, The New York Times

Neil Lewis, The New York Times

Tony Mauro, Legal Times

Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times

Wilson F. Minor, Factual Reporting Service

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, Winter 2008

Winter 2008
Vol. 32, No. 1

Sidelined?

Editorial

 

Leave it to the grandparents...

Newsgathering

 

Sidelined?

 

Athletic access cases

 

Athletic associations v. the press

Freedom of Information

 

Sunshine State living up to its name by encouraging transparency in government

 

Q&A with Florida Gov. Charlie Crist

 

Court forces turnover in Paterno salary case

 

Two steps forward, one step back?

 

FOIA backers in the Senate

 

State public records laws and e-mail

 

Round and round and round with the FBI

 

 

From the Hotline

Reporter's Privilege

 

Defining a journalist in Congress

 

Defining Moments

 

Defining a journalist

 

How to save a life

Libel

 

Libel plaintiffs resort to British court system

Prior Restraints

 

Still searching for answers

 

Senate revisits sunshine

 

N.H. court opens hearings for sex offender

 

 

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