David Enrich

1 week ago | nytimes.com | David Enrich

A federal grand jury indicted a former New Hampshire businessman this week on charges that he orchestrated attacks on the homes of journalists who had investigated claims of sexual misconduct against him. The grand jury in Boston indicted the businessman, Eric Spofford, on four stalking-related charges after prosecutors said he had paid an associate $10,000 to vandalize the homes of a reporter and an editor at New Hampshire Public Radio, as well as the home of the reporter's parents.

1 week ago | libraryjournal.com | David Enrich

. Mar. 2025. 336p. ISBN 9780063372900. $32.99. POL SCI COPY ISBN New York Times business investigations Editor Enrich (Servants of the Damned) documents attempts to weaponize libel law and stifle free speech. The book begins and ends with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s suggestion that the Court revisit the “actual malice” requirement established over 60 years ago in New York Times v. Sullivan.

1 month ago | editorandpublisher.com | Katie Robertson |David Enrich

Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2025 9:35 am A federal jury on Tuesday ruled against Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and Republican vice-presidential nominee, in her yearslong defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.

1 month ago | pressdemocrat.com | Katie Robertson |David Enrich

A federal jury on Tuesday ruled against Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and Republican vice-presidential nominee, in her yearslong defamation lawsuit against The New York Times. The jury reached the verdict after two hours of deliberations. Palin sued the Times in 2017 after the newspaper published — and then swiftly corrected and apologized for — an editorial that wrongly suggested that she had incited a deadly shooting in Arizona years earlier.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Katie Robertson |David Enrich

A jury has begun deliberations in the case brought by former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska against The New York Times after her lawyers urged the jurors to find the publication liable for defamation. Kenneth G. Turkel, a lawyer for Ms. Palin, said that James Bennet, the Times's opinion editor at the time who had rewritten an editorial at the center of the case, had acted with complete disregard for the truth and for Ms. Palin.