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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.

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Media coalition asks U.S. Supreme Court to allow audio, video coverage of health-care reform opinion
06/14/2012
(Clarification: The Reporters Committee and media coalition are asking the Court to allow live audio and video coverage of the release of the opinion in the health care cases. In the conclusion of the letter, we are asking that if the Court decides...
CLARIFICATION: Media coalition asks U.S. Supreme Court to allow audio, video coverage of health-care reform opinion
06/14/2012
(Clarification of earlier release and letter to the Supreme Court) The Reporters Committee and media coalition are asking the Court to allow live audio and video coverage of the release of the opinion in the health care cases. In the conclusion of...
Special guide on Access to Juvenile Justice, the rise in "ag-gag" laws featured in Reporters Committee spring magazine
06/07/2012
A comprehensive, state-by-state guide to access to juvenile courts across the U.S. is a featured pullout in the Spring 2012 issue of The News Media & The Law, the quarterly publication of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
Reporters Committee tells House committee of concerns to changes in information releases
06/06/2012
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Executive Director Lucy A. Dalglish told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that planned changes to the Department of Labor’s press “lock-up” procedures for information...
Reporters Committee urges federal court to allow challenge of policy that restricts access to court records
06/06/2012
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has asked a federal appellate court to reverse a lower court ruling that could severely curtail the news media's ability to challenge state court policies that deny access to judicial proceedings...