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Symposium explores new media and legal reporting

By Mark Obbie

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A University of Arizona Rehnquist Center symposium, "New Media and the Courts," held yesterday in Tucson, looks like it was a thoughtful, star-studded affair, with reporters Joan Biskupic and Tony Mauro, among others -- not to mention a Supreme Court justice (Stephen Breyer) for added spice. Several panels discussed the changing role of the journalist and blogger, and courts' increasingly active attempts to use the Web to inform the public. The program's Web site promises symposium materials at some point (no mention of video). So far, the most complete account is this newsy news release by La Monica Everett-Haynes. (Via How Appealing).Update: Tony Mauro posted a detailed and informative report from the Tucson conference, and promises more to come in future posts. He reports on the discussions citing courts' increasing willingness to play publisher:

Some federal and state courts are already putting a lot out there — all court documents, streamed audio of hearings, everything except what the judge ate for lunch — and that trend is spreading.

Of course that's good for the public -- unless the news media dry up and blow away and all that's left is official handouts, as Mauro notes. This is not the first discussion of the trend, nor is the last. But it sounds like it was an unusually thorough one. I hope there's video, or there are papers and outlines to be published.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on September 10, 2008 (boomark / email).