From the Spring 2001 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 4. From the Spring 2001 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 4. Over the past several months, the Orlando Sentinel weathered criticism ...

With the 2024 election behind us, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is looking ahead to Donald Trump’s second term as president and how it will impact press freedom and the public’s ...

From the Fall 2004 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 21. From the Fall 2004 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 21. Satire, caricature and parody are forms of art that rely on blurring the ...

In 2009, President Obama promised to create a more transparent, whistleblower-friendly government. But the reality is that federal employees who have given government secrets to news media ...

The Reporter’s Recording Guide provides a summary of the recording laws (which restrict the recording and dissemination of phone calls and in-person conversations) and hidden camera laws (which ...

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Police departments across the nation are implementing body-worn camera programs in an effort to create a more objective record of officers’ activities. As recent news events have proved, these videos ...

Short for strategic lawsuits against public participation, SLAPPs have become an all-too-common tool for intimidating and silencing criticism through expensive, baseless legal proceedings. Anti-SLAPP ...

AP Photo The privacy suit brought by wrestler Hulk Hogan against Gawker will examine whether a videotape was newsworthy. What… When deciding whether to publish certain content, members of the news ...

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Journalists who lie on employment applications to gain access to private facilities for newsgathering activities are not protected by… Journalists who lie on employment applications to gain access to ...