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 TABLE OF CONTENTS   The News Media & The Law Vol. 27, No. 1  

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The News Media & The Law

Winter 2003

Access Upheaval:
How will the biggest federal shake-up in half a century
affect the public's right to know?


In this issue:

  COMMENTARY The ups and downs of covering the homefront

Cover Story
  COVER STORY Journalists anticipate new challenges in covering Homeland Security department
  FEATURE Ridge record on open government called 'mixed bag'
  FEATURE Homeland Security Department releases first FOI regs
  FEATURE Handling of subpoenas under DHS worries journalists
  FEATURE Federal officials and media have Dialogue over secrecy
  FEATURE Homeland Security Act blocks unclassified information from public, protects the companies that provide it
  FEATURE Will a history of government using journalists repeat itself under the Department of Homeland Security?
  SIDEBAR New Weblog goes behind covering the homefront
  FEATURE Secrecy makes status of detainees difficult to track

Newsgathering
  ANALYSIS The press preps for war hopeful, skeptical
  SIDEBAR Statement of Principles: News Coverage of Combat
  FOURTH CIRCUIT Mass purchase of newspapers violates First Amendment rights
  ILLINOIS Hockey-fan-turned-author wins appeal, returns to selling books outside Chicago hockey arena

Prior Restraints & Secret Courts
  ANALYSIS Courts reexamine access to jury information
  U.S. SUPREME COURT Philadelphia Inquirer asks U.S. Supreme Court to review ban that kept media from interviewing jurors
  SIDEBAR Guidelines for covering jurors
  TEXAS District Attorney petitions appeals court to vacate judge’s order permitting ‘Frontline’ to tape jury

Freedom of Information
  GEORGIA DEA analyst given one-year jail sentence for leaking unclassified information
  SECOND CIRCUIT Appeals Court rules that government cannot withhold information on official in the name of privacy
  U.S. CENSUS BUREAU Court-ordered release of adjusted census data spawns debate over accuracy of original count
  SIDEBAR Official 2000 census count and adjusted figures differ by up to two percent in some states
  U.S. SUPREME COURT Gun-owner privacy and freedom of information soon will duel in U.S. Supreme Court
  IDAHO Public hospital is forced by state supreme court to release employee information to newspaper

Libel & Privacy
  ANALYSIS Questions of Internet jurisdiction spin web of confusion for online publishers
  UNITED KINGDOM Dow Jones asks U.S. court to stop Harrods libel suit in Britain
  KANSAS Critics question constitutionality of criminal libel laws

Confidentiality
  THE HAGUE Tribunal win may influence other courts
  UPDATE Compendium tracks reporter’s privilege laws

Broadcasting & Copyright
  D.C. CIRCUIT FCC cannot mandate video descriptions
  ROUNDUP New Hampshire Supreme Court rules in favor of cameras in courtrooms; other courts limit access

  OPEN & SHUT OPEN & SHUT

  HOTLINE From the hotline

  CITES Sources & Citations