A law enacted by Alameda County, California, criminalizes the act of reporting on street races and other reckless driving ...

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 ...

Gabe Rottman leads the Reporters Committee's work to advance key policy priorities like the PRESS Act and the Department of Justice media guidelines. He's a practicing attorney with a focus on novel ...

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 ...

Recent developments in New Jersey and Hawaii have sparked debate about who should qualify for the protections of state shield laws and the complications that emerge when trying to extend the reporters ...

From the Summer 2009 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 21. The Nebraska Supreme Court in May… From the Summer 2009 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 21. The Nebraska Supreme Court in May ...

Today, the U.S. Department of Justice released the findings from its Inspector General investigation into the use of subpoenas and other legal authorities in leak investigations to obtain ...

In today’s digital age, the content from recent news reports can be instantly distributed across the Internet’s many blogs and… In today’s digital age, the content from recent news reports can be ...

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 ...

Shannon Jankowski is a staff attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, where she focuses on the Reporters Committee's amicus practice. She provides amicus support for journalists ...

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 ...

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