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The addition of Twitter to our collection of ways to reach readers has been a great success. Despite only having an account for just a few months, we have garnered more than 1,160 followers. It has allowed us to branch out in ways that we might not have been able to do. Twitter, combined with our [...]

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Courtroom tweeting not a distraction

From law.com last week, I read a recent ruling that would ban reporters tweeting from the courtroom. In United States v. Shelnutt (M.D. Ga. Nov. 2), a federal court in Georgia ruled that Rule 53 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure prohibits “tweeting” from the courtroom and that Rule 53 does not unconstitutionally restrict freedom [...]

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