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Monday, November 27, 2006 6:41 PM

Familiar faces in battle for secret sources

Patrick Fitzgerald and Judith Miller were involved in the most famous or notorious case involving the government's desire to get reporters to turn over names of sources. They are on opposite ends again, this time in a different case. USA Today reports:
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Monday, November 27, 2006 6:31 PM

A behind the scenes look at SF legal battle

The NY times takes a behind the scenes look at the battles facing the lawyers and others for San Francisco Chronicle reporters Lance Williams and Mark Fainuru-Wade. David Carr, who once worked for one of those smart-aleck alternative papers in Minnesota,
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Monday, November 27, 2006 12:23 AM

Trouble at polling places

From Editor and Publisher and Press Notes JournalistsJournalists threatened with arrest at pollsA reporter and photographer for the Cincinnati Enquirer were threatened with arrest at a local polling site yesterday, the paper reported, after attempting
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Monday, November 27, 2006 12:04 AM

Photos at polling places

On Election Day, photographers across the county faced an inconsistent set of laws tangled up with local customs and practices while trying to photograph voting. Showing readers what goes on at the polls is a basic watchdog role of the press. (Remember
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