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Former federal prosecutor Preet Bharara, who was removed by President Trump as U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, is starting a podcast, “Stay Tuned With Preet,” to discuss justice and fairness issues.
Journalist Kevin Deutsch wrote “Pill City” about two Baltimore teens who supposedly masterminded a national drug-distribution ring. Writer David Simon called it a “wholesale fabrication.”
Legislators across the U.S. debated dozens of bills during this year’s legislative sessions that would close or limit public access to a wide range of government records and meetings. Most proposals did not become law, but freedom-of-information advocates are bracing for more fights next year.
Vincent Carlone, police chief in New Shoreham since 2004, said his years as an officer have convinced him that reporting arrests for minor crimes unnecessarily shames people.
The dogged work of Shaun King, who recently left the New York Daily News, led to the identification of two white men now charged in the viral-video beating of a black man during the white supremacist rally. He says he is surprised by the lack of police enterprise.
After his peers saw the mug shot in a Utah newspaper, a couple says their teenage son was subjected to teasing and bullying at his school and has suffered from depression and severe anxiety.
An Orlando Sentinel series in 2003 anticipated today’s opioid epidemic, but journalistic carelessness allowed the drug’s manufacturer to attack the newspaper.
Taylor Lorenz, a reporter for The Hill, was punched for recording the aftermath of the Charlottesville incident in which one woman was killed. She was only one of several journalists who was attacked.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is “reviewing policies affecting media subpoenas.” While in Congress, Vice President Mike Pence proposed a shield law to protect journalists.
National Rifle Association ad says it will “fisk” the newspaper, using a term for refuting an article point by point.