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Journalism
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Media Law Prof Blog
Former NPR Journalist Charged With Espionage
NPR reports that journalist Roxana Saberi, who has been detained for some time in Iran, is being charged with espionage. Her visa ran out in 2006 but she stayed in the…
The Right Coast
Noonan writes an OK column Tom Smith
In fairness, this column by Peggy Noonan is not too bad. She makes a good point that the deliberate fog around Obama is dissipating and that clarity is probably not…
The Right Coast
JournoList is the real head of the Democrat Party Tom Smith
I just had to say that to see if I could originate the meme and get credit for it.
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
End of an era in Seattle : Sad day in journalism could signal new beginning for the American lawyer
Today marked the last print edition of Seattle's Post Intelligencer, a 145 year old daily newspaper with more than 217,000 subscribers. Riding the ferry in this morning I read stories…
Media Law Prof Blog
Christopher Hitchens in Beirut
Michael J. Totten, who has written for Commentary, Reason, and the Wall Street Journal, recounts about what happened when écrivain engagé Christopher Hitchens wrote on a Syrian Social Nationist Party…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Nonprofit Journalism and Mother Jones
The New York Times reports that the financial situation of Mother Jones is putting the idea of preserving print journalism through using the nonprofit form to the test. According to…
Media Law Prof Blog
Former NPR, BBC Journalist Arrested in Iran
The Guardian reports that an American journalist who has worked both for the BBC and for NPR has been arrested by the Iranians. Roxana Saberi is in Iran to write…
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
Do "Real" Journalists Twitter?
By Lisa Salazar
I posed this question on Twitter but got no responses. I suppose that answers that. But, I think I just got lost in the Twittersphere so I raise the question…
The Trademark Blog
Discussion of NY Times / Gatehouse Linking Settlement
Nieman Journalism Lab: Wrap-up NYT / Gatehouse (settlement of dispute re ability of Boston Globe to link to headlines of local papers). Ht Linsay Lavine.
The Right Coast
NY Times not long for this world Tom Smith
America may be about to lose yet another predictable, self-congratulatory voice from the public square. Should we believe what a newspaper that has borrowed and spent itself to the brink…