By Laura Crimaldi, director, New England First Amendment Coalition The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently sided with an embalmer who lost his license after crude comments he made about handling remains were published in The Boston Phoenix. Troy Schoeller certainly didn’t spare anyone the gritty details of his life’s work when speaking to the Phoenix [...]
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Mass. proposal to improve media’s access to courts
By Val Wang, producer for Order in the Court project, WBUR, Boston Last week marked a big change in the way citizen journalists can cover the courts in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court announced a major proposal to update the state’s “Cameras in the Courtroom” statute, SJC Rule 1:19, to fit modern-day journalistic and technological realities.
