Reuters Attends DOJ Meeting After Ground Rules 'Adjusted' (UPDATE)

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Reuters Attends DOJ Meeting After Ground Rules 'Adjusted' (UPDATE)

Reuters, which was among nine news outlets planning not to go to an off-the-record meeting this week with Attorney General Eric Holder, appeared at one held Friday.

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It's unclear if other news outlets that initially turned down an invitation appeared today given the slight change in the ground rules.

A DOJ spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions about attendees on Friday.

UPDATE 5:55 p.m.: Here's the full list of attendees at Friday's media meetings, per DOJ:

11 p.m meeting participants:
Marilyn Thompson, Thomson-Reuters Washington D.C. Bureau Chief; Stuart Karle, Thomson-Reuters Chief Operation Officer; Robin Sproul, ABC News Washington D.C. Bureau Chief; John Zucker, Vice-President, Law and Regulation, ABC


3 p.m. meeting participants:
Susan Goldberg, Executive Editor of Federal, State and Local News, Bloomberg; Thomas Golden, Attorney, Willkie Farr; David Lauter, Washington Bureau Chief, Washington Tribune; Lee Levine, Attorney, Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz; Susan Page, Washington Bureau Chief, USA Today; Barbara Wall, Vice President and Senior Associate General Counsel, Gannet Company

DOJ representatives:
Attorney General Eric Holder; Deputy Attorney General James Cole; Margaret Richardson, Chief of Staff to the Attorney Generall; Jenny Mosier, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Attorney General; David O'Neil, Chief of Staff to the Deputy Attorney General; Stuart Goldberg, Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General; Paul O'Brien, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division; Deborah Sorkin, Chief of the Policy and Statutory Enforcement Unit, Office of Enforcement Operations, Criminal Division; John Lynch, Chief, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, Criminal Division; Nanda Chitre, Acting Director, Office of Public Affairs

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-calderone/reuters-holder-meeting-off-the-record_b_3367420.html

Report on yesterday's meeting.

News execs, Holder discuss subpoena issue

By PETE YOST

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder, executives from several news organizations said government officials expressed a commitment to changing guidelines on issuing subpoenas in criminal investigations involving reporters.

The news executives made the comments Thursday after meeting with Holder and some of his aides....One of the news media participants, Marty Baron, executive editor of the Washington Post, said the news executives told the department officials that reporters were concerned about using their email and concerned about using their office telephones.

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Jerry Seib, Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, said that in addition to the commitment to change the guidelines, there also was a renewed commitment to support a federal shield law for journalists. Such laws in force in many states protect journalists from having to reveal confidential sources.

"We diplomatically raised our concerns — don't know what's going to happen if anything," said Jim Warren, Washington bureau chief of the New York Daily News....Other news media participants were Jane Mayer, a staff writer for the New Yorker; and John Harris, editor in chief of Politico...Asked why the news executives decided to participate, Baron said people in the press frequently have off-the-record discussions.

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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/news-execs-holder-discuss-subpoena-issue