Five Dubs Podcast
Five Dubs focuses on the who, what, when, where and why of local news media in Maryland, Delaware and D.C. We’ll talk with the journalists about stories behind the news. Five Dubs is a project of the MDDC Press Association and is hosted by Rebecca Snyder and Kevin Berrier.
Five Dubs Podcast
E132: Rewind - Navigating a PIO Lawsuit
Paula Knudsen Burke, an attorney with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Brittany Hailer, Director of Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh, talk about the lawsuit against an Allegheny County media policy, which says people working in the jail cannot contact media without first going through the county staff.
Resources from the interview include:
https://www.rcfp.org/litigation/hailer-v-allegheny-county/
SPJ on PIOs: https://www.spj.org/public-information-officers/
DC chapter of SPJ on PIOs: https://spjdc.org/pio-project/
Brechner Center paper: https://brechner.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Public-employee-gag-orders-Brechner-issue-brief-as-published-10-7-19.pdf
