Case: 13-422 Document: 84 Page: 1 04/22/2013 915290 59 13-422, 13-445 United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY, CHARLIE SAVAGE, SCOTT SHANE, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Defendants-Appellants. ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK THE HONORABLE COLLEEN MCMAHON BRIEF AMICI CURIAE OF THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND 37 OTHER MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS, IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS-APPELLEES Bruce D. Brown Counsel of Record Mark R. Caramanica Aaron Mackey The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press 1101 Wilson Blvd., Suite 1100 Arlington, VA 22209 Telephone: (703) 807-2100 *Additional counsel appearances listed on the pages following Case: 13-422 Document: 84 Page: 2 04/22/2013 915290 59 *Additional amici counsel: Bruce L. Gottlieb Aretae Wyler John Zucker Atlantic Media, Inc. Indira Satyendra 600 New Hampshire Ave., NW ABC, Inc. Washington, DC 20037 77 W. 66th Street New York, NY 10023 Charles J. Glasser, Jr. Global Media Counsel Jerald N. Fritz Bloomberg L.P. Senior Vice President 731 Lexington Avenue Legal and Strategic Affairs New York, NY 10022 and General Counsel Allbritton Communications Company David C. Vigilante 1000 Wilson Blvd., Suite 2700 Johnita P. Due Arlington, VA 22209 Cable News Network, Inc. Also counsel for POLITICO LLC 1 CNN Center Atlanta, GA 30303 Kevin M. Goldberg Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, PLC Marshall Anstandig 1300 N. 17th St., 11th Floor Senior VP/General Counsel Arlington, VA 22209 Andrew Huntington Counsel for American Society General Counsel/Director of Labor of News Editors Relations California Newspapers Partnership Karen Kaiser Bay Area News Group Associate General Counsel 750 Ridder Park Drive The Associated Press San Jose, CA 95190 450 W. 33rd Street New York, NY 10001 James Chadwick Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton Jonathan Bloom LLP Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 390 Lytton Avenue 767 Fifth Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 New York, NY 10153 Additional Counsel for California Counsel for The Association of Newspapers Partnership American Publishers, Inc. Case: 13-422 Document: 84 Page: 3 04/22/2013 915290 59 Jim Ewert Mark H. Jackson General Counsel Jason Conti California Newspaper Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Publishers Association 1211 Avenue of the Americas 2000 O Street, Suite 120 7th Floor Sacramento, California 95811 New York, NY 10036 Rachel Matteo-Boehm David M. Giles Bryan Cave LLP Vice President/ 560 Mission Street, Suite 2500 Deputy General Counsel San Francisco, CA 94105 The E.W. Scripps Company Counsel for Courthouse News Service 312 Walnut St., Suite 2800 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Lance Lovell Managing Attorney, Disputes Kai Falkenberg Cox Media Group, Inc. Editorial Counsel 6205 Peachtree Dunwoody Road Forbes LLC Atlanta, GA 30328 60 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10011 Matthew A. Leish Vice President & Assistant General Barbara W. Wall Counsel Vice President/Senior Daily News, LP Associate General Counsel 450 W. 33rd St., 3rd Floor Gannett Co., Inc. New York, NY 10001 7950 Jones Branch Drive McLean, VA 22107 Michael Kuritzkes Executive Vice President Jonathan Donnellan and General Counsel Hearst Corporation Digital First Media, LLC Office of General Counsel 448 Lincoln Highway 300 W. 57th St., 40th Floor Fairless Hills, PA 19030 New York, NY 10019 Jeffrey P. Hermes J.P. Cratty Digital Media Law Project Corporate Attorney Berkman Center for Lee Enterprises Internet & Society 201 North Harrison Street, Suite 600 23 Everett St., 2nd Floor Davenport, IA 52801 Cambridge, MA 02138 Case: 13-422 Document: 84 Page: 4 04/22/2013 915290 59 Karole Morgan-Prager Lynn Oberlander Juan Cornejo General Counsel The McClatchy Company The New Yorker 2100 Q Street 4 Times Square Sacramento, CA 95816 New York, NY 10036 Mickey H. Osterreicher Jennifer Borg 40 Wagon Wheel Drive General Counsel East Amherst, NY 14051 North Jersey Media Group Inc. Counsel for National Press P.O. Box 75 Photographers Association Hackensack, NJ 07602 Denise Leary Jonathan D. Hart Ashley Messenger Dow Lohnes PLLC NPR, Inc. 1200 New Hampshire Ave., NW 1111 North Capitol St. NE Washington, DC 20036 Washington, D.C. 20002 Counsel for Online News Association Kurt Wimmer Kathleen A. Kirby Covington & Burling LLP Wiley Rein LLP 1201 Pennsylvania Ave., NW 1776 K St., NW Washington, DC 20004 Washington, DC 20006 Counsel for Newspaper Counsel for Radio Television Association of America Digital News Association Barbara L. Camens Gail C. Gove Barr & Camens Chief Counsel, News 1025 Connecticut Ave., NW Reuters America LLC Suite 712 3 Times Square, 20th Floor Washington, DC 20036 New York, NY 10036 Counsel for The Newspaper Guild – CWA Bruce E. H. Johnson Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Randy L. Shapiro 1201 Third Ave., Suite 2200 Maya Menendez Seattle, WA 98101 The Newsweek/ Counsel for The Seattle Times Co. Daily Beast Company LLC 555 W. 18th St., 2nd Floor New York, NY 10011 Case: 13-422 Document: 84 Page: 5 04/22/2013 915290 59 Bruce W. Sanford Laurie A. Babinski Baker & Hostetler LLP 1050 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20036 Counsel for Society of Professional Journalists David S. Bralow Assistant General Counsel/ East Coast Media Karen H. Flax Assistant General Counsel/ Publishing & Litigation Tribune Company 220 E. 42nd St., Suite 400 New York, NY 10017 John B. Kennedy James A. McLaughlin Kalea S. Clark The Washington Post 1150 15th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20071 Case: 13-422 Document: 84 Page: 6 04/22/2013 915290 59 CORPORATE DISCLOSURE STATEMENT1 Pursuant to Fed. R. App. P. 26.1 and 29, amici state as follows: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is an unincorporated association of reporters and editors with no parent corporation and no stock. ABC, Inc. ABC, Inc. is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, a publicly traded corporation. Allbritton Communications Company Allbritton Communications Company is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of privately held Perpetual Corporation and is the parent company of entities operating ABC-affiliated television stations in the following markets: Washington; Harrisburg, Pa.; Birmingham, Ala.; Little Rock, Ark.; Tulsa, Okla.; and Lynchburg, Va. American Society of News Editors American Society of News Editors is a private, non-stock corporation that has no parent. 1 Pursuant to Fed. R. App. P. 29(c)(5) and Local R. 29.1(b), amici state as follows: (1) no party’s counsel authored this brief in whole or in part; (2) no party or party’s counsel contributed money that was intended to fund preparing or submitting the brief; and (3) no person—other than the amici curiae, their members or their counsel—contributed money that was intended to fund preparing or submitting the brief. i Case: 13-422 Document: 84 Page: 7 04/22/2013 915290 59 The Associated Press The Associated Press is a global news agency organized as a mutual news cooperative under the New York Not-For-Profit Corporation law. It is not publicly traded. Association of American Publishers, Inc. The Association of American Publishers, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that has no parent and issues no stock. Atlantic Media, Inc. Atlantic Media, Inc. is a privately held, integrated media company, and no publicly held corporation owns 10% or more of its stock. Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg L.P.'s parent corporation is Bloomberg Inc., which is privately held, and no publicly held corporation owns 10% or more of its stock. Cable News Network, Inc. Cable News Network, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., which itself is a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., a publicly traded corporation. California Newspapers Partnership California Newspapers Partnership is a general partnership operated by Digital First Media, and includes Media News Group, Stephens Media, LLC, and Gannett Company, Inc. ii Case: 13-422 Document: 84 Page: 8 04/22/2013 915290 59 California Newspaper Publishers Association California Newspaper Publishers Association is a mutual benefit corporation organized under state law for the purpose of promoting and preserving the newspaper industry in California. Courthouse News Service Courthouse News Service is a privately held corporation with no parent corporation and no publicly held corporation holds more than 10 percent of its stock. Cox Media Group, Inc. Cox Media Group, Inc. is privately owned, and no publicly held corporation owns 10% or more of its stock. Daily News, LP Daily News, LP is a limited partnership that has no parent and issues no stock. Digital Media Law Project Digital Media Law Project (“DMLP”) is an unincorporated association based at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. DMLP is not a publicly held corporation or other publicly held entity. DMLP has no parent corporation, and no publicly held company owns 10% or more of DMLP. Digital First Media, LLC Digital First Media, LLC is a privately held company. No publicly-held company owns ten percent or more of its equity interests. iii Case: 13-422 Document: 84 Page: 9 04/22/2013 915290 59 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. News Corporation, a publicly held company, is the indirect parent corporation of Dow Jones, and Ruby Newco LLC, a subsidiary of News Corporation and a non-publicly held company, is the direct parent of Dow Jones. No publicly held company owns 10% or more of Dow Jones’ stock. The E.W. Scripps Company The E.W. Scripps Company is a publicly traded company with no parent company. No individual stockholder owns more than 10% of its stock. Forbes LLC Forbes has no parent corporation and no company owns 10% or more of its stock.