Until the modern-day press can determine how to profit from investigative journalism and begin to provide the kind of accountability reporting traditionally practiced by newspaper reporters, it needs a legal boost. Providing legal preferences for the press is nothing new, but it has not been done meaningfully for too long. Preferences that account for an unrelenting news cycle and the possibilities for instantaneous distribution of the news are needed. FOIA is a logical place to start. Its goal is the promotion of transparency and democracy. But it too has long faltered in achieving this goal and, by many measures, is in desperate need of an overhaul. Amending FOIA’s expedited processing provision to create the presumption of “compelli...
As inhabitants of the Information Age, we are increasingly aware of the amount and kind of data that...
Was journalism ever the democratic watchdog and campion of freedom its advocates claim
The marketplace of ideas has been a centerpiece of free speech jurisprudence for a century. Accordin...
The fourth estate is undergoing dramatic changes. Many newspaper reporters, already surrounded by a ...
Until the modern-day press can determine how to profit from investigative journalism and begin to pr...
Despite great volume of research into press–state relations, we know little about how journalists us...
In many circumstances, a broad umbrella of shared rights for the press and the public is perfectly a...
First Published April 21, 2021Despite great volume of research into press–state relations, we know l...
Declining trust in the American press has been longstanding and corrosive—both to our information en...
Journalists see the First Amendment as an amulet, and with good reason. It has long protected the Fo...
In 1999, North Carolina became the thirty-first state to enact a statute granting journalists a priv...
For several decades, the American press has been fighting for its economic survival. But while it ha...
The author argues that Freedom of Information legislation has been a disappointment for journalists
In deciding privacy lawsuits against media defendants, courts have for decades deferred to the media...
The press is under fire. Members of the press often face subpoenas or similar court orders, compelli...
As inhabitants of the Information Age, we are increasingly aware of the amount and kind of data that...
Was journalism ever the democratic watchdog and campion of freedom its advocates claim
The marketplace of ideas has been a centerpiece of free speech jurisprudence for a century. Accordin...
The fourth estate is undergoing dramatic changes. Many newspaper reporters, already surrounded by a ...
Until the modern-day press can determine how to profit from investigative journalism and begin to pr...
Despite great volume of research into press–state relations, we know little about how journalists us...
In many circumstances, a broad umbrella of shared rights for the press and the public is perfectly a...
First Published April 21, 2021Despite great volume of research into press–state relations, we know l...
Declining trust in the American press has been longstanding and corrosive—both to our information en...
Journalists see the First Amendment as an amulet, and with good reason. It has long protected the Fo...
In 1999, North Carolina became the thirty-first state to enact a statute granting journalists a priv...
For several decades, the American press has been fighting for its economic survival. But while it ha...
The author argues that Freedom of Information legislation has been a disappointment for journalists
In deciding privacy lawsuits against media defendants, courts have for decades deferred to the media...
The press is under fire. Members of the press often face subpoenas or similar court orders, compelli...
As inhabitants of the Information Age, we are increasingly aware of the amount and kind of data that...
Was journalism ever the democratic watchdog and campion of freedom its advocates claim
The marketplace of ideas has been a centerpiece of free speech jurisprudence for a century. Accordin...