UPDATES: 5/16/13, 10:30 a.m. EDT. Lynn Oberlander, general counsel of The New Yorker, has lashed out at the Justice Department for its subpoenas of AP phone records. Meanwhile, a longtime AP reporter in Afghanistan writes about what her job is like on a day-to-day basis. 5/17/13, 11:40 a.m. EDT. Bloomberg has announced that Samuel Palmisano, a former chairman and CEO of IBM, will serve as an independent adviser to the company and make recommendations and enhancements after reviewing its data and privacy standards. Hogan Lovells is advising Bloomberg’s board of directors.
Both The Associated Press and Bloomberg L.P. have retained outside counsel this week after finding themselves caught up in two different controversies, with the AP fighting back against the U.S. Department of Justice’s seizure of reporters’ and editors’ phone records amid a government leaks probe, and Bloomberg under fire for allegedly using its ubiquitous terminals to tap into the personal information of company clients.
