Reporter sues to find out how Bush and Cheney sought to shape perceptions of their administration

A Gawker reporter is suing the National Archives and Records Administration for information about how former President George W. Bush and his vice president, Dick Cheney tried to shape public opinion during their tenure. The reporter is not seeking the Bush administration documents protected under law from disclosure but rather the identities of those who [...]

Woman sues media outlets for defaming her with claim she had Schwarzewnegger ‘love child’

A flight attendant who worked on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s private jet is suing Gawker Media, the National Enquirer and the Daily Mail for articles saying she had a child with the former governor. The articles began in 2003 in the National Enquirer with an assertion that the attendant told friends that Schwarzenegger was the father of [...]

New Jersey: ACLU forces issue in obtaining record of back room king-making

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie invoked the executive privilege exception in denying the requests of Gawker reporter John Cook to correspondence, calendar entries and phone logs on a dinner with Fox News President Roger Ailes who encouraged Christie to run for president. Chistie eventually submitted a calendar entry about the dinner after the American Civil [...]

Editor who broke Brett Favre sex scandal story has no regrets

Deadspin editor-in-chief defended the ethics of his decision to pay for information alleging that Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre had sent a New York Jets employee an image of male genitalia. -db National Sports Journalism Center November 3, 2010 By Brian Hendrickson A.J. Daulerio says he found himself in the shadiest situation of his life [...]

Delaware senate candidate O’Donnell claims slandered in Gawker post

Backed by the National Organization for Women, a spokesperson for Delaware senate candidate Christine O’Donnell condemned a post by an anonymous man on  Gawker who claimed  he had a sexual encounter with the candidate. -db Politico October 28, 2010 By Andy Barr Christine O’Donnell’s campaign late Thursday night responded to an anonymous Gawker post claiming [...]

Police action in invading editor’s house in Gizmodo iPhone case said in conflict with California law

A director at the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard says that in seizing a Gizmodo editor’s computers, the police most likely violated the state’s shield law.-db Citizen Media Law Project Commentary April 26, 2010 By Sam Bayard Gizmodo announced this afternoon that California police seized computers and servers from the home of its reporter/editor [...]

Gawker lawyers try to invoke shield law in police seizure of computers at editor’s house

The furor continues over tech blog Gizmodo’s acquisition of a next-generation iPhone which it bought from someone who found it in a bar in Redwood City. To find out how Gizmodo got the iPhone, police seized the computers of an editor for Gawker, Gizmodo’s parent company. Gawker hired a First Amendment lawyer to fight the [...]