Newsgathering Committee
The Newsgathering Committee focuses on legal issues involved in collecting news and information. These issues include source confidentiality, access to places and note retention policies.
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Committee Materials and Projects
Drones: Regulation and Practices
State Legislative, Federal Affairs and Newsgathering Committees, January 2018
Model Brief on Access to the Executive Branch
August 2017
Panic Book: The Fastest Possible Answers in an Emergency
Access to Public Employee Pension Records
November 2013
The MLRC Model Media Decorum Order for High Profile Cases
January 2011
She Wont Let Me Blog from the Courtroom
July 2010
Model Policy on Access and Use of Electronic Portable Devices in Courthouses and Courtrooms
June 2010
A Journalist’s Quick HIPAA Guide
May 2009
Points for Discussion on Journalistic Use of Anonymous Sources
July 2007
Compendium of State Statutes Protecting Whistleblowers
June 2007
Ride-Alongs Revisited Privacy Issues Raised by Special Access Granted to News Media by Law Enforcement
Feb. 2006
Model Brief on Jury Access Issues
March 2004
Cases on Government Information Since 9/11
Oct. 2003
A New Federal Law May Impede Public Health Reporting
HIPAA, April 2003
Compendium of Judicial References to First Amendment Interests in Newsgathering
Nov. 2001
MLRC Materials
The Ongoing Assault on the Right to Photograph/Record in Public
MLRC Bulletin 2011 Issue 3
Managing Materials: What Some News Organizations Have Done
Newsgathering Committee, April 2008
2008 Model Trial Brief
Jan. 2008
Bulletin 2005 No. 4 Part B
Confidential Source Litigation: Lessons from 2005
Jan. 2006
Bulletin 2005 No. 4 Part A
When Government Shuts Out Critical Press: Government Retaliation and the First Amendment
Dec. 2005
Bulletin 2004 No. 4 Part 3
Media Access and Newsgathering in High Profile Cases
Jan. 2005
Bulletin 2002 No. 4 Part II
Post 9/11 Access: Responding to the National Security Challenge
Jan. 2003
News Gathering Practices After Bartnicki v. Vopper
LDRC Pre-Publication / Pre-Broadcast Review Committee Report, Nov. 2002
Note Retention Policies of Reporters AND Use of “Advice of Counsel” as a Defense by Reporters
LDRC Pre-Publication / Pre-Broadcast Review Committee Report, Sept. 2002
Use of “Advice of Counsel” as a Defense by Reporters
Sept. 2002
Bulletin 2002 No. 2
Criminal Prosecutions of the Press: The Espionage Act, Newsgathering Post-Bartnicki, Criminal Libel, Restricting Juror Interviews
March 2002
Reporting on the War on Terror: The Esionage Act and Other Scary Statutes
From Bulletin 2002 No. 2, March 2002
Bulletin 1998 No. 4A
1998 Significant Developments Part II: Legislation Aimed at “Paparazzi” Places All Journalists at Risk
Dec. 1998
Bulletin 1997 No. 2
Damage Considerations When the Press is Sued for Gathering the News
April 1997
Current Retraction Practice: An LDRC Survey
1992
Bulletin No. 1
Includes N.J. Supreme Court to Consider Reporters Privilege in Libel Action
Summer 1981
