This week marks the 280 th anniversary of a landmark event in the history of a free press: the trial of John Peter Zenger in New York. Zenger, publisher of the New-York Weekly Journal, was found not ...

to judges and away from jurors. Trial attorneys today are severely restricted in their ability to inform jurors of their power (if not their right) to decide the law as well as the facts of a case. No ...

Arguably no event in American history did more to further freedom of the press than the little-known trial of newspaper publisher John Zenger, which began Aug. 4 in 1735 in New York. Zenger was ...

INDELIBLE INK: THE TRIALS OF JOHN PETER ZENGER AND THE BIRTH OF AMERICA’S FREE PRESS By Richard Kluger W.W. Norton, $27.95, 334 pages History needs heroes. But sometimes they must be created out of ...

President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News is reminiscent of an attack on the free press nearly 300 years ago, when the Zenger trial ended in a not guilty verdict for the printer of the ...

It was surprising to not read the name of Anna Zenger in Mark Spencer’s review of Richard Kluger’s “Indelible Ink” (“The Birth of America’s Free Press,” Books, Dec. 24). Were it not for her, the New ...

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