Background: During a Juvenile Court proceeding in 2019, Adam Montgomery was granted custody of his four-year-old daughter, Harmony. Later that year, Harmony disappeared, but her disappearance went ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

News Media & The Law photo by Jamie Schuman Spectators line up outside the Supreme Court hoping to get one… It was pouring rain the last day the Supreme Court heard oral argument this spring, but that ...

As of May 9, 126 U.S. military personnel had died in Iraq out of a total of about 250,000 troops, according to Pentagon figures. Compared to previous wars, the loss to the military is remarkably low — ...

A journalist’s job is to ask questions, get answers and inform the public with accuracy and credibility. But right now, the free press is under assault. “We have to decide as a country that the First ...

Adam A. Marshall is a senior staff attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. His work includes litigation in federal and state courts and training journalists on government ...

Christina Piaia (she/her) is the legal manager for Protecting Journalists Pro Bono Program at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. She oversees legal intakes for pro bono matters ...

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 ...

From the Fall 2001 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 23. From the Fall 2001 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 23. The producer of a video about the killing of two boys did not libel a pair ...