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New York Times, Trump Yönetiminin Çağrılarına Karşı Çıktı
New York Times, geçtiğimiz hafta muhabirlerinden birkaçına yöneltilen olağandışı mahkeme celplerine karşı hukuki süreç başlattı. Gazetenin üst düzey hukuk danışmanı David McCraw, Çarşamba günü yaptığı açıklamada, celplerin “kötü niyetli ve usulsüz” olduğunu belirterek mahkemeden iptal edilmesini talep ettiklerini duyurdu. McCraw, “Başvurumuzda da belirttiğimiz gibi, bu celpler Times’ı haberlerinden dolayı cezalandırmak amacıyla kötü niyetle çıkarılmıştır.
Is the United States (Still) at War? How Wars Begin and End
During the hostilities with both Venezuela and Iran, the messaging from the Trump administration on their status as an armed conflict has been garbled at best. Under the law of armed conflict (LOAC, also known as international humanitarian law), there are two types of conflicts.
"Buying Silence" by David Hooper: David McCraw reviews
Buying Silence: How Oligarchs, Corporations and Plutocrats Use the Law to Gag Their Critics by David Hooper Who knew what a delicate flower Yevgeny Prigozhin was? Yes, that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the late leader of the Wagner Group, the sociopath who liked watching videos of people killing other people with sledgehammers when he wasn’t busy slaughtering Ukrainians or marching on the Kremlin.
Who Owns the Space Behind Your Airplane Seat?
Nonfiction Credit...Yogee Chandrasekaran March 18, 2021 MINE! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives By Michael A. Heller and James Salzman I once returned to my childhood home to find my father going through my collection of baseball cards, carefully calculating their value. It was as if he thought he … owned them. Seriously? I had collected them, I had cared for them, I had paid for them.
Truth in Our Times
David E. McCraw recounts his experiences as the top newsroom lawyer for the New York Times during the most turbulent era for journalism in generations. In October 2016, when Donald Trump's lawyer demanded that The New York Times retract an article focused on two women that accused Trump of touching them inappropriately, David McCraw's scathing letter of refusal went viral and he became a hero of press freedom everywhere.
Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
Truth in Our Times (Hardcover) Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts By David E. McCraw All Points Books, 9781250184429, 304pp. Publication Date: March 12, 2019 Other Editions of This Title: Digital Audiobook (3/11/2019) Paperback (3/30/2021) CD-Audio (3/12/2019) List Price: 28.99* * Individual store prices may vary. Description David E.
“Media must come together”: Interview with the New York Times’ lawyer on why the media needs to rally free speech. Plus Trump vs. former presidents, the ultimate machometer - David E. McCraw, Rachael Jolley, 2019
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How The Times Uses FOIA to Obtain Information the Public Has a Right to Know
Understanding The Times Our lawyer provides an update on why we’re still filing so many Freedom of Information Act lawsuits. Published Sept. 2, 2019Updated Sept. 4, 2019 In an effort to shed more light on how we work, The Times is running a series of short posts explaining some of our journalistic practices. Read more from this series here.
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presents Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts in conversation with NEIL SWIDEY This event includes a book signing Date Apr 22 Monday April 22, 2019 7:00 PM Location Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 Tickets This event is free; no tickets are required. Harvard Book Store welcomes Deputy General Counsel at the New York Times DAVID E.
A Newspaper Lawyer’s Press Pass Through History
Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts By David E. McCraw All Points Books 294 pages President Donald J. Trump’s strafing of the press has, in some ways, reinvigorated it. Cable news networks are flush. Books chronicling chaos inside the Trump administration have become best-sellers. The New York Times and The Washington Post are adding record numbers of subscribers and collecting journalism prizes like seashells.
Truth In Our Times: Inside The Fight For Press Freedom In The Age Of Alternative Facts - The Ring of Fire Network
Thom reads from Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts. Author David E. McCraw recounts his experiences as the top newsroom lawyer for the New York Times during the most turbulent era for journalism in generations. VIDEO
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David E. McCraw - Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts - in conversation with Michael S. Schmidt
As deputy general counsel at The New York Times, McCraw is responsible for providing legal counsel to the newsroom regarding libel, freedom of information, court access, litigation, and news-gathering. The one who decides what news is fit to print, McCraw has vetted all the paper’s potentially controversial stories since 2002.
Opinion | Think Like a Libel Lawyer
My job, when I am doing it right, is to please no one. I’m a press lawyer. I’m paid by this newspaper to vet stories before publication. Think of me as a story’s first and worst reader: doubtful, questioning, blind to subtlety, skeptical of the facts, regularly prodding editors and reporters to do something more or different. And if I have done my job well, many of the subjects of those same stories will be unhappy as well, but for all the reasons we want them to be: We got it right.
How a Times Court Decision Revolutionized Libel Law
Understanding The Times In Times v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court ruled that public officials had to show not just that a story was inaccurate and hurt their reputation, but also that the publisher acted with “actual malice” — with reckless disregard for the truth. Nov. 30, 2018 In an effort to shed more light on how we work, The Times is running a series of short posts explaining some of our journalistic practices. Read more of this series here.
How a Crackdown on Leaks Threatens Confidential Sources
It was just four years ago that roughly two dozen representatives of major news organizations crowded around a conference table at the Justice Department for a meeting with Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. Our agenda? Strengthening the Justice Department’s guidelines that limit when federal prosecutors can serve subpoenas on the news media. The issue was not theoretical.
Think FOIA Is a Paper Tiger? The New York Times Gives It Some Bite (Published 2017)
A document released to The New York Times in response to FOIA litigation: before a court order, left, and after the order, right. June 13, 2017 Time has not been kind to the Freedom of Information Act. It was enacted more than 50 years ago to give citizens the right to obtain documents from federal agencies. Not long after it went into effect, the consumer advocate Ralph Nader wrote a law review article titled “The Freedom From Information Act” denouncing the law as weak and ineffective.
I Hardly Expected My Letter to Donald Trump to Go Viral (Published 2016)
Oct. 17, 2016 Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. In this piece, David McCraw, a newsroom lawyer for The Times, describes the reactions to his now famous letter to Donald J. Trump’s lawyer. Image The New York Times printed David McCraw’s reply in last Friday’s paper — along with the original letter, from Marc E.
FOIA, Subpoenas and Singapore’s Libel Laws: All in a Day’s Work (Published 2016)
Aug. 10, 2016 Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. In this piece, David McCraw, a newsroom lawyer for The Times, describes the mosaic of legal issues that he encounters on a typical day.
Looking Back on the Pentagon Papers Decision
In a hallway of The New York Times offices, there is a framed copy of the Telex traffic between the Justice Department and The Times from June 1971 when the government demanded that the paper cease publishing the Pentagon Papers. Two installments had already appeared by then.
The Fuzzy Scope of the Forever War Needs Definition
2016 Journal of Law & Technology Symposium: Cybersecurity and Privacy in the Internet Economy: Information Sharing, Data Security, and Intellectual Property Presented by: Catholic University Columbus School of Law’s Journal of Law & Technology Speakers: Jennifer Daskal, Assistant Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law and Editor, Just Security; Jamil Jaffer, Vice President for Strategy and Business Development, IronNet Cybersecurity and Professor, George Mason...
FOIA Litigation Has Its Own Rules, But We Deserve Better
2016 Journal of Law & Technology Symposium: Cybersecurity and Privacy in the Internet Economy: Information Sharing, Data Security, and Intellectual Property Presented by: Catholic University Columbus School of Law’s Journal of Law & Technology Speakers: Jennifer Daskal, Assistant Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law and Editor, Just Security; Jamil Jaffer, Vice President for Strategy and Business Development, IronNet Cybersecurity and Professor, George Mason...
National Security Letters and Leak Investigations
Journalists were reminded again last week of how little legal protection actually exists when the federal government decides to investigate national security leaks. In an ongoing Freedom of Information Act suit, the Freedom of the Press Foundation has sought the guidelines used by the Justice Department in deciding when federal agents can use National Security Letters to pursue information about reporters. DOJ recently produced documents in response to the suit.
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