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The Faculty Lounge
Source Checking the New York Times Magazine — Part Two
Is it true, as Alice Goffman asserted in On the Run, that To round up enough young men to meet their informal quotas and satisfy their superiors, the [Philadelphia] police…
Media Law Prof Blog
Garry Wills On “Spotlight”
In the New York Review of Books, Garry Wills on the film "Spotlight," reporters, and journalism's duty to society. There are several aspects to this story of child abuse, as…
Media Law Prof Blog
Prominent German Journalist Attacked In Street Over Column
Journalist Helmut Schuemann, who writes for the Tagesspiegel, says he was physically attacked last Friday by several people who did not like the column he wrote about the increase in…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The disappearance of the manly journalist?
By John Kang
An amusing, and interesting, essay from the Atlantic. I, Elspeth Reeve, am the manliest journalist in the world. That’s not something I go around thinking about all day, but recently Mark…
The Right Coast
THIRD TIME S THE CHARM?
THIRD TIME S THE CHARM? Get me rewrite! The New York Times s initial story on the departure of interim chief executive Ellen Pao from social media community Reddit lacked…
Media Law Prof Blog
Egyptian Journalist Taken From His Home, Detained For Being Member of “Illegal Group”
The Cairo Post reports that journalist Mohamed Saber al-Batawy has been detained since last Wednesday when authorities took him by force from his home. The government says he is charged…
The Right Coast
The journalist who released the pope s embargoed encyclical has lost his Vatican credentials – The Washington Post
The veteran Italian journalist who scooped the Vatican by releasing an embargoed draft of a major document on the environment penned by Pope Francis, has been given the papal boot.…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
The University of Texas Will Add Ben Bradlee Papers to Watergate Collection
The estate of former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee has agreed to donate his papers to the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center. Ben Bradlee was known for being the…
The Right Coast
U-T to be sold to L.A. Times parent for $85 million | San Diego Reader
Both the Union-Tribune and the Los Angeles Times announced today that they are joining forces. The Times' parent, Tribune Publishing, will pay $85 million for the U-T. This does not…
The Right Coast
Judith Miller Recants; Where’s the Media? | RealClearPolitics
In The Story: A Reporter s Journey, which hit book store shelves Tuesday, April 7, former New York Times reporter Judith Miller revealed in the final chapter that she now…