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Leslie A. Morris, the curator of modern books and manuscripts at Houghton Library, says the archive has exciting implication for Updike scholars, as news of two unpublished Updike novels, slated to come out in twenty years, have already been guaranteed to the Library for study. “There will be a lot of surprises, I’m sure,” she says...
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...Erik Ugland, a media lawyer and associate professor at Marquette University's Diederich College of Communication, says the judge will have to decide whether the students are journalists and whether their website could be considered news media. Ugland says Illinois courts have accepted professional journals and government watchdog groups as reporters, suggesting they may take a similarly expansive look at student journalists. (Read "Twitterers Thwart Effort to Gag Newspaper...
...whether the class's website could be considered a news outlet, Ugland says that while it isn't necessarily a "slam dunk," the students published their conclusions and much of their evidence on a publicly accessible website. "Certainly in spirit, the work that they're doing is the kind that the legislature no doubt had in mind when they extended these protections to journalists," he says. Additionally, the project is part of the Medill Innocence Project, which has had an impressive record since it started in 1999; student reporters have helped exonerate 11 convicts, including five inmates on death...
...benefiting from the industry's success is less clear. How Greenwood's group has scored decisive early victories on an obscure but crucial health-care provision is a case study in how interest groups are shaping the contours of health-care reform - and why that's not necessarily good news for consumers...