Bloggers

A blogger fighting a sweepingly broad subpoena that is seeking the identities of hundreds of his readers filed a motion in Virginia court on Thursday arguing that their identities should be protected.

A Virginia-based blogger is fighting a subpoena that seeks the identities of everyone who viewed an online article he wrote about a defamation lawsuit, the Citizen Media Law Project reports.

An Iowa-based federal judge earlier this month let a reporter live-blog a criminal trial, tapping away at her laptop in the back rows of the courtroom gallery, according to the ABA Journal.

In the face of a federal lawsuit, the New York Police Department has given in and agreed to re-issue press credentials to three city bloggers, according to The New York Times.

A supermodel has demanded that Google release the identity of a blogger who called her a "skank" and an "old hag", reports the New York Daily News.

Liskula Cohen filed the defamation suit in a New York state court, and asked the judge to issue a court order requiring Google to identify the person she says defamed her on a blog operated by its Blogger.com service.

The transportation authority that runs Washington D.C.’s subway  and bus system is denying that bloggers are members of the news media when they request public information.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority denied D.C.-area blogger Michael Perkins’s request for a news media designation under the entity’s access-to-records policy in late December.

In 1973, Oregon’s open meeting law codified what may be a unique arrangement between reporters and government bodies -- news media representatives were allowed into executive sessions so long as they didn’t report on what happened there.

In most states, executive sessions of any governing body are closed to everyone. Boards and councils use the meetings to discuss real estate transactions, employee discipline, ongoing litigation and a variety of similar things allowed under state open meetings laws.

An Oregon newspaper does not have to give up the identity of someone who commented anonymously on its website, a judge held this week, because the state shield law protects anonymous bloggers just as it does confidential sources.

To the lengthy list of Web sites blocked on city employees' computers in Vallejo, Calif., which so far includes pornography, social networking and gambling sites, we can now add three blogs -- one hosted by the local Times-Herald.

As foreign athletes, sports fans and hordes of journalists look toward home with the closing of the Olympics this weekend, free-press advocates are assessing how reporters have fared in and around Beijing. 

To the global nonprofit Reporters Without Borders, it was a "disaster."