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Bill KovarikFebruary 17, 2022

Palin’s appeal could set up a Supreme Court test of a decades-old media freedom rule

“I can see the Palin case providing a vehicle to return libel laws back to a time when it was much easier for public figures to sue the press.”

Joshua BentonMay 14, 2018

Congratulations, sports media: You just got a big business-model subsidy from the Supreme Court

By throwing out a ban on sports gambling in 49 states, the court opens up a giant opportunity for insider sports coverage — and a lesson on news business models.

Ken DoctorJuly 16, 2014

The newsonomics of the new quest for big, big, big

Rupert Murdoch wants to add Time Warner to his stable of media properties. Seemingly everyone’s looking for an acquisition. What is it about this moment that is pushing everyone to get bigger?

Mark CoddingtonJuly 3, 2014

This Week in Review: Questions on Facebook’s experiment, and a knockout blow to Aereo

Plus: Verdicts in the News Corp. phone hacking scandal, jailed journalists in Egypt, and the rest of the news about the news from the past fortnight.

Linda KinstlerJuly 19, 2013

When openness backfires: Is there room for more gray area in how court records are made public?

Two academics from NYU worry that the old binary system — a court document is either public or it’s not — doesn’t mesh well with a searchable online context, and that protecting access might mean rethinking it.

Mark CoddingtonJuly 13, 2012

This Week in Review: Newspaper survival strategies, and the price of change in New Orleans

Plus: Two new studies on digital news consumption, the news outsourcing debate, and the rest of the week’s media and tech talk.

Jeffrey HermesJuly 9, 2012

Falsity and the First Amendment: Implications of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Stolen Valor

The director of the Citizen Media Law Project says the decision puts a dent in a common claim of those seeking defamation suits.

This Week in Review: Journatic and outsourcing local news, and Twitter’s tension with developers

Plus: The future of News Corp.’s newspapers, debating the merits of process journalism, and the rest of the week’s media and tech happenings. Mark Coddington

Adrienne LaFranceJune 28, 2012

Anatomy of a spike: How SCOTUS Blog dealt with its biggest traffic day ever

Health-care decision day meant spending big money to keep the site from crashing at exactly the wrong time.

Adrienne LaFranceApril 4, 2012

Still no cameras allowed, but Supreme Court coverage has changed more than you think

Jeffrey Toobin, Nina Totenberg, and Lyle Denniston talk about covering the Supreme Court, where the rise of documents and specialization have altered how legal stories get told.

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