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How to Legally Protect Your Newsgathering

The Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic presents a free webinar for journalists on how they can legally protect their newsgathering. The program includes a refresher on the basics of defamation law, how to strengthen an article against any potential defamation claim, what to avoid in terms of internal communications that could be twisted in later litigation, best practices for protecting sources, your right to record law enforcement, and more. The Clinic’s Local Journalism Project provides legal assistance to local news outlets and journalists. Among many other services, it offers newsgathering advice and prepublication review of articles to help protect its clients from litigation. It assists with pursuing FOIL requests, and it litigates for clients when governments improperly deny access to records or proceedings. It defends journalists and news outlets against subpoenas that seek their testimony or the identity of a confidential source, and it fights defamation lawsuits intended to suppress protected free speech rights.