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Jewel v. NSA
The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the NSA and government agencies on behalf of AT&T customers. EFF argues that the government's…Categorized in Newsgathering -
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Texas ethics board fines activist and news writer for not registering as lobbyist
The Texas Ethics Commission fined the head of a conservative advocacy group for failing to register as a lobbyist, but…Categorized in Newsgathering -
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Washington Post correspondent, other journalists arrested in Iran
A Tehran-based Washington Post reporter and others have been arrested in Iran on unspecified charges. Gholam-Hossein Esmaili, director general of…Categorized in Newsgathering -
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Supreme Court allows execution without disclosure of drug information
The U.S. Supreme Court prevented an Arizona death row inmate from delaying his execution date in order to receive information…Categorized in Freedom of information -
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Federal appeals court finds death row prisoners might have a right to information on lethal injections
The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco (9th Cir.) granted a death row inmate a delay in execution so…Categorized in Freedom of information -
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Hawaii high court upholds high standards for open proceedings in murder case
The Supreme Court of Hawaii this week in Oahu Publications Inc. v. The Honorable Karen Ahn upheld a strong public…Categorized in Court access -
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Reporters Committee elects Pierre Thomas of ABC News as chair
Pierre Thomas, senior justice correspondent for ABC News, was elected Tuesday as chair of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of…Categorized in Announcements -
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Saundra Torry
Saundra Torry retired in January from USA TODAY's editorial board, where she'd been writing for nearly 20 years. Torry was… -
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10th Circuit reverses dismissal of 'Dateline' defamation case
Last week the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that while NBCUniversal reporters did not violate anyone’s Fourth Amendment rights…Categorized in Libel and privacy -
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John Seigenthaler, friend of the Reporters Committee and the First Amendment, remembered
John Seigenthaler, former editor and later publisher of The Tennessean in Nashville and founder of the Newseum Institute’s First Amendment…Categorized in Announcements