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    Digital Journalist's Legal Guide
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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.

    OWS protester argues that First and Fourth Amendments apply to tweets
    10/09/2012
    An Occupy Wall Street protester is challenging a court’s decision requiring his tweets to be...
    Ken Burns team fights for shield law protection over Central Park jogger suit subpoena
    10/05/2012
    Documentary filmmakers are fighting a subpoena that would require them to hand over outtakes and...
    Twitter hands over subpoenaed records in Occupy Wall Street prosecution
    09/14/2012
    Twitter complied today with a court order to hand over to New York prosecutors an Occupy Wall...
    Twitter faces looming deadline on court order to reveal user's information
    09/13/2012
    After a state appellate court earlier this week denied Twitter's request to stay the...
    Government says it will not seek testimony of journalists in Kiriakou prosecution
    07/09/2012
    The U.S. government announced it will not subpoena journalists as witnesses in the prosecution of a...
    Federal appeals court rejects academic researchers' reporter's privilege defense
    07/09/2012
    The First Amendment-based reporter's privilege does not extend to a pair of academic...
    UC Berkeley police settle with unlawfully arrested photographer for $162,500; more police training
    07/05/2012
    The University of California Berkeley Police Department has settled with an independent...
    Federal appellate court allows former prosecutor to investigate Detroit newspaper's government source
    06/27/2012
    A federal appeals court allowed a former Detroit prosecutor to continue investigating the identity...
    Texas court finds environmental website publisher not entitled to protection under state shield law
    05/31/2012
    A Texas state judge recently ordered a local website publisher to turn over e-mail messages and...
    U.S. files unopposed motion to seal parts of oral argument in Sterling, Risen appeals
    04/10/2012
    Department of Justice attorneys have filed an unopposed motion to close to the public parts of the...
    First Circuit hears oral argument in Boston College subpoenas case
    04/05/2012
    Promises of confidentiality made to compile an oral history of "The Troubles" in Northern...
    Subpoena for Salon reporter in obscenity trial dropped
    03/02/2012
    A journalist who was subpoenaed to testify at an obscenity trial for an artist specializing in...
    Wall Street Journal reporter protected by N.Y. shield law
    02/16/2012
    A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal is protected from testifying in a lawsuit between the...
    Former CIA officer charged with leaking info to journalists
    01/23/2012
    Former CIA officer John Kiriakou, right, is accused of leaking classified documents to...
    Ill. judge rules that tech blog not covered by shield law
    01/19/2012
    Writers for a technology blog that published leaked photos of an unreleased Motorola Droid...