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Detroit reporter ordered to reveal confidential DOJ sources
A Detroit Free Press reporter was ordered by a U.S. District Court judge last week to reveal the confidential sources…Categorized in Protecting sources and materials -
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Journalists arrested as protests open outside RNC
Radio host Amy Goodman and two Democracy Now! producers were arrested Monday while covering a protest of the Republican National…Categorized in Newsgathering -
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Protesters lose another round in bid for better access to RNC
Another court has sided with the city of St. Paul in the latest round of lawsuits over public access to the…Categorized in Newsgathering -
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Mich. officers sue over police agency gag order
On behalf of three Flint, Mich. police officers who say they were punished for breaching an agency rule barring them from…Categorized in Freedom of information -
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ABC producer arrested in Denver
An ABC producer was arrested Wednesday while trying to film Democratic officials and corporate donors from a sidewalk outside a Denver hotel,…Categorized in Newsgathering -
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Student newspaper wins access to police records
The Kentucky Attorney General this summer sided with Eastern Kentucky University's Progress student newspaper, deciding it should have access to…Categorized in Freedom of information -
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Kristof apologizes to Hatfill over NYT 'Mr. Z' columns
Three weeks after the FBI publicly cleared Dr. Steven Hatfill's name in the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, New York Times…Categorized in Libel and privacy -
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As the DNC wraps up, all pretty quiet on the hotline front
Don't want to speak too soon, but on this last day of the Democratic National Convention it seems the events in Denver…Categorized in Newsgathering -
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Calif. city manager blocks local blogs from staff computers
To the lengthy list of Web sites blocked on city employees' computers in Vallejo, Calif., which so far includes pornography, social networking and…Categorized in Freedom of information -
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Bodyguard apologizes to Rushdie in rare British libel resolution
When Salman Rushdie, the legendary author and worldwide free-speech icon, took up a defamation case against his former bodyguard over an…Categorized in Libel and privacy