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Dan Gillmor: NYTimes turns blind eye to IPad App bans?

FAC April 28, 2010

Does the NYTimes care that Apple bans Apps due to content? Dan Gillmor, FAC board member and  director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University, questions the nature of the two media giants’ relationship, but as he writes in his  Mediactive blog,  “I’ve received, after 11 days since first asking, the official word that the paper is “not going to comment.”  Gillmor is at no loss for words when considering

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Entrepreneurial media program wins Innovation award

FAC April 20, 2010

The Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship , under the direction of Dan Gillmor, a leading expert in digital media, and FAC Board of Directors member, has been awarded the 2010 Arizona State University President’s Award for Innovation. -df Knight Center Wins ASU Innovation Award April 16, 2010 · Published By Editor East Valley Living, Greater Phoenix & East Valley PHOENIX – The Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at the Walter Cronkite School of

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First Amendment Coalition & SacBee file suit for names of Sacramento County retirees with highest pensions

donal brown April 19, 2010

The Sacramento Bee and the First Amendment Coalition have filed a lawsuit to force the Sacramento County Employees’ Retirement System to release the names of all its retirees with pensions of over $100,000. -db The Sacramento Bee April 16, 2010 By Robert Lewis —The Sacramento Bee and the First Amendment Coalition on Thursday filed a lawsuit in Sacramento Superior Court to compel the Sacramento County Employees’ Retirement System to release the names of retirees getting

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Court says NO to request by FAC and others for State Bar records needed for research on affirmative action

Peter Scheer April 7, 2010

A California Superior Court judge has ruled that the State Bar Association, which regulates the legal profession, is not required to release data requested by the First Amendment Coalition and researchers’ studying the effect of law school affirmative action policies. The Court’s ruling in the controversial litigation will be appealed. Judge Curtis E.A. Karnow of the California Superior Court for San Francisco ruled March 29, 2010 that the State Bar is not legally obligated to

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FAC, joining info requests for Palin speech at UCS-Stanislaus, also requests speaking contract for Bill Clinton talk at UC Berkeley

FAC April 7, 2010

FAC—The First Amendment Coalition has filed a request under the Public Records Act for the speaking contract covering Sarah Palin’s planned appearance at a fundraising event for CSU Stanislaus in June. FAC has also requested the speaking contract for Bill Clinton’s appearance and speech at UC Berkeley in February. Arrangements for Palin’s speech have come under scrutiny from students, public employee unions and State Senator Leland Yee. Unconfirmed reports put Palin’s fee for the June

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