Everything online journalists need to protect their legal rights. This free resource culls from all Reporters Committee resources and includes exclusive content on digital media law issues.
Nat Hentoff, the columnist who was laid off last week from his 50-year post at the Village Voice, wrote exhaustively on civil liberties and politics, music and abortion, controversies and conversations both local and national. But he was also a stalwart in the battle for free-press rights from early in his career; he keeps close tabs on issues affecting journalists, and is a veteran member of the Reporters Committee's steering committee.
A New York City man has pleaded guilty to helping terrorists by enabling satellite access to Hezbollah-run television, The New York Times reports.
A judge in 2007 turned down Javed Iqbal's claim of First Amendment protection for providing access to the station, saying the federal charges passed muster because they targeted the action and not the content of speech, according to The Times.
A Maryland appeals court heard oral arguments Monday over the outing of anonymous Web writers responsible for posting online allegedly defamatory remarks about a Dunkin’ Donuts store, according to The Washington Post.
A federal court yesterday ordered the release of search records related to the 2001 “Amerithrax” investigations, recognizing for the first time in the District of Columbia Circuit a First Amendment right of access to warrant materials after an investigation has concluded.
Tough day for Virginia's anti-spam law: The state supreme court on Friday declared it "unconstitutionally overbroad" in restricting not just commercial but all types of speech in mass e-mail messages, The Associated Press reports.
A former Air America radio host was exercising her First Amendment rights when she assailed military contractor CACI International on the air, saying it was behind the Abu Ghraib prison abuses, an appeals court has ruled.
A federal district court judge in Pennsylvania who agreed to seat an anonymous jury in a corruption trial was wrong to do so because the media has the right to know juror names, an appeals court has ruled.
Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz told a federal court Tuesday that protecting the confidentiality of his sources is "absolutely essential" to his ability to do his job.
The First Amendment rights of reporters covering a February 2006 Federal Bureau of Investigation raid at a prominent Puerto Rican activist's home were not violated when agents allegedly pushed, hit and pepper sprayed them, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
