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Looking for Optimism in a Bruising Media Landscape

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The layoffs hitting the Washington Post are significant and further shrank one of the nation’s largest, by journalist head count, text-focused media outlets. As an avid news consumer, and someone who lives in the D.C. area,...more

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AI Hallucinated Me. If You Are a Writer, It May Hallucinate You

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Artificial intelligence programs can “hallucinate”—make things up. We’ve seen that when lawyers have had AI write their legal briefs, and the resulting documents cite totally fictitious “hallucinated” precedents. Because of...more

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What Connects “Popcorned Planet” and Ms. Blake Lively?

The answer is “Popcorned Planet, Inc., moves to quash a subpoena for documents served by Blake Lively, who responds in opposition.”  Popcorned Planet, Inc. v. Lively, 2025 WL 3458601 (M.D. Fl. Dec. 2, 2025)....more

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When the Residents of the Heights Talk, What Are They Really Thinking?

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Don’t you sometimes wonder what our gloriously elected leaders, our pontifical talking heads and all those sundry government officials, political wannabes and honorable this’s and thats actually think when they say what they...more

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The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 72 - Beyond the Headlines: Unpacking a Pivotal Case on Privilege Protections

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A federal court ruling issued in a case involving an alleged bribery scandal shook the legal world when it appeared to limit attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine. The case grabbed the attention of...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

The Subpoenas Are Coming! The Subpoenas Are Coming!

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It’s not like we weren’t warned. “Go to the reporter and ask him/her” to disclose their confidential sources, Donald Trump wrote in 2023. “If not given the answer, put whoever in jail until the answer is given. You might add...more

Blattel Communications

First the Late Show, Next the Local News?

The announcement by CBS cancelling the Late Show likely marks a major tipping point in media generally and broadcast specifically. This development seems removed from professional services, but there are looming...more

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Ioana Good on Finding Your Voice: A CEO's Journey to the U.S. and Path in Journalism, Thought Leadership and Tech - Passle's CMO...

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On this episode of CMO Series Represents, Yasmin Zand is joined by Ioana Good, founder of Promova, for a conversation that’s as inspiring as it is insightful. Ioana’s journey began when she left Romania for the U.S. with...more

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[Podcast] Alumni @ RopesTalk: Conversation with Dan Krockmalnic, Boston Globe Media

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On this episode of Ropes & Gray’s Alumni @ RopesTalk podcast, employment, executive compensation, and benefits partner Megan Bisk is joined by alum Dan Krockmalnic, chief operating officer and general counsel at Boston Globe...more

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The JustPod: Volunteering for the Death Penalty: Our Discussion with Award-Winning Journalist Gianna Toboni and Her Debut Book...

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The JustPod is a podcast of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section, hosted by Justin Danilewitz and Geonard Butler. This episode features a discussion with Award-Winning Journalist Gianna Toboni about her...more

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The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 62 - The Tragic Toll of Conspiracy Theories: The Seth Rich Story

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A violent, unsolved murder of an up-and-coming young professional in our nation’s capital. A grieving family in the Midwest. And conspiracy theories both ignited and inflamed by politics. Listen in as investigative...more

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There’s More Local News Than You Think

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Have you ever heard of the Baltimore Banner? Well, it just won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, and it’s, hopefully, part of a wave of new media outlets filling the gap as more established titles face serious financial...more

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AG Permits Journalist Subpoenas in Leak Investigations

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The U.S. Attorney General has updated the policy governing when the news media can be subject to legal process for their sources. The updated regulations permit the Department of Justice (DOJ) to subpoena the media for leak...more

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DOJ Changes Policy To Authorize Compulsory Process For Reporters’ Records In Leak Investigations

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On April 25, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memorandum updating Department of Justice (DOJ) policy for “obtaining information from, or records of, members of the news media” (Bondi Memorandum)....more

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EU Anti-SLAPP Directive: Public Participants May Claim Compensation for Strategic Litigation Outside EU

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The European Union's Directive 2024/1069 (the "Directive") aims to protect individuals and organizations engaged in public participation (such as NGOs, journalists and academics) from strategic lawsuits against public...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Escaping Orwell’s Memory Hole: Why Digital Truth Should Outlast Big Brother

George Orwell warned us in his dark masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four how effortlessly authoritarian regimes could erase inconvenient truths by tossing records into a “memory hole”—a pneumatic chute leading directly to...more

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Patel v. CNN: Public Figures Suing the Media for Defamation Lose Most of the Time

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In a case, as they say, ripped from the headlines, the Virginia Court of Appeals has put on a clinic explaining the inter-play between the First Amendment and defamation law.  The Court, in Patel v. CNN  made clear that...more

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Ninth Circuit Upholds Oregon's Ban on Unannounced Audio Recordings, Rejects First Amendment Challenge

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by Project Veritas, a conservative activist group that engages in undercover journalism, challenging the constitutionality of an...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Now Available for Publishers: Group Copyright Registration of Online News Content

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For years, publishers have been without a cost-effective way to register the full content of news media websites. The U.S. Copyright Office recently addressed this need by creating a new "group" registration for online news...more

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The Rise of Techno-Journalists: Addressing Plagiarism, Patchwriting, and Excessive Aggregation in the Era of LLMs

[EDRM’s Editor’s Note: This article was first published here on July 16, 2024, and EDRM is grateful to Rob Robinson, editor and managing director of Trusted Partner ComplexDiscovery, for permission to republish.] Complex...more

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The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 33 - Framing the Narrative: Journalism's Influence on the Presumption of Innocence

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In this insightful episode, Pulitzer-nominated journalist Mark Di Ionno talks candidly about how the media can affect the court of public opinion for defendants facing criminal accusations. Throughout Mark’s 40+ years of...more

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Why Quality Legal Insights Take Precedence in Today's Media Landscape with Zack Needles, Editor-in-Chief of Law.com

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Zack Needles, Editor-in-Chief of Law.com, to discuss how legal journalism can prepare law firms for emerging trends that could have a major impact on the...more

Wiley Rein LLP

FCC Proposes “Priority” Application Review Proposal for Broadcasters Providing Local Journalism

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On January 17, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that proposes to prioritize review of certain applications submitted by commercial and...more

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Federal Court Rules Texas Drone Law Not Facially Unconstitutional

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a district court’s 2022 ruling on the constitutionality of Texas Chapter 423 law (i.e., the drone law) which restricts the actions of drones. Nat’l Press Photographers...more

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DOJ Broadly Prohibits Seizing Reporters' Records

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Summary - The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has released a new rule sharply limiting government subpoenas that could unmask journalists’ sources....more

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