Federal Laws
- Freedom of Information Act, 5 USC § 552.
Massachusetts Laws
Publication of Legal Notices
Open Meetings
- Open Meeting Law: M.G.L. c. 30A, §§ 18-25.
- Open Meeting Regulations: 940 CMR 29.00.
- Attorney General’s Open Meeting Law Guide and Educational Materials.
- Open Meeting Law Advisory Commission.
Public Records
Sales Tax Exemptions
Mass. State Government
- Public Records Division, Secretary of the Commonwealth
- A Guide to the Massachusetts Public Records Law (PDF)
- A Citizen’s Guide to Massachusetts State Services
Massachusetts State Courts
- Supreme Judicial Court Public Information Office
- Guidelines on the Public’s Right of Access to Judicial Proceedings and Records
- Cameras in the Courts – SJC Rule 1:19
- Opinions
- Webcasts of Oral Arguments
- Judiciary Media Committee
- Judiciary-Media Committee Response Team
Media Law
- American Bar Association Forum on Communications Law
- Federal Communications Bar Association
- Media Center at New York Law School
- Media Law Blog.
- Media Law Prof Blog
- Media Law Resource Center
- Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law
- Student Press Law Center
Freedom of the Press
- American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
- American Civil Liberties Union: Free Speech
- California First Amendment Coalition
- Copley First Amendment Center
- First Amendment Center
- First Amendment Foundation
- Freedom Forum
- Free Expression Network
- Free Expression Policy Project
- Mediachannel.org
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- The Media Coalition
Freedom of Information
- American Library Association
- Brechner Center for Freedom of Information
- Coalition of Journalists for Open Government
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
- Freedom of Information Center
- MemoryBlog
- National Freedom of Information Coalition
- Public Citizen Freedom of Information Clearinghouse
- The Sunshine Coalition
- U.S. Dept. of Justice Freedom of Information Act Guide
Media Industry Organizations
- American Press Institute
- American Society of Newspaper Editors
- Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
- Investigative Reporters and Editors
- Journalism.org
- Magazine Publishers of America
- National Association of Broadcasters
- National Cable and Telecommunications Association
- National Newspaper Association
- New England Newspaper & Press Association
- New England Society of Newspaper Editors
- Newspaper Association of America
- Online News Association
- Online Publishers Association
- Organization of News Ombudsmen
- Poynter Online
- Radio-Television News Directors Association
- Society of Environmental Journalists
- Society of Professional Journalists
- Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
- The Newspaper Guild
International Free Press Organizations
- Committee to Protect Journalists,
- Editorsweblog.org,
- Index on Censorship
- International Center for Journalists
- International Federation of Journalists
- International Freedom of Expression Exchange
- International Press Institute
- Internews
- Privacy International
- Reporters Without Borders
- World Association of Newspapers
- World Free Press Institute
- World Press Freedom Committee