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Tamiment-Wagner: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Collected by: New York University

Archived since: Oct, 2015

Description:

Contains websites of U.S. based entities advocating and defending civil rights and liberties, including freedom of speech. Civil rights are citizens' rights as established by law and protected (usually) by constitution. For technical, privacy and other reasons, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl.

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Title: The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

URL: http://www.rcfp.org/

Description: The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) is an American nonprofit organization, founded in 1970, that provides free legal assistance to and on behalf of journalists. A number of prominent journalists presently sit on the organization's steering committee, including Dan Rather, and Judy Woodruff and, prior to his death, Walter Cronkite. Its offices are located in Arlington, Virginia.The RCFP actively aids in defending reporters facing subpoenas and court orders to disclose the identity of confidential sources. The Reporters Committee is also involved in a variety of First Amendment, shield law, freedom of information, and other free speech activities, including state open records and meetings law compliance. The organization publishes a quarterly magazine, The News Media & The Law. In addition, the Reporters Committee files legal briefs on a variety of issues that affect a journalist's ability to gather and disseminate news and also maintains a 24-hour legal defense hotline for journalists and media lawyers.

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Subject:   Freedom of the press.

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