ALBANY – Arguing for a broad interpretation of New York’s Shield Law, an attorney for a New York-based reporter under subpoena in Colorado in the “Batman killer” case told the Court of Appeals that the law helped establish New York as the media capital of the world.
“The idea that New York, prideful as it was about being the center of the dissemination and the gathering of news throughout the world, would limit its protections to reporters talking to sources in New York about parochial New York affairs flies in the face of the way the Legislature broadly defined news to be worldwide events,” said Christopher Handman of Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C. “You don’t become the global leader of news gathering and dissemination if all you are doing is reporting on the metro desk,” he told the court hearing Holmes v. Winter, 245.
