Yamasaki

" Extra! Extra! Read all about it! " This iconic news entreaty evokes images of a *851 distant past, before the internet, television, and radio, when the news was reported on pieces of paper. These aptly called newspapers were printed by a set time each day. New stories that broke after that time would generally appear in the next day's edition. But sometimes newspapers would publish an extra edition because something so momentous or sensational had happened that people would willingly buy a second paper to read all about it. Breaking news in the digital age is a much looser concept than in the days of newspaper extras. If it were still announced by street vendor clamors, the resulting cacophony would be intolerable. In reality, since people can manage their notification updates, the noise is much easier to ignore.

This case calls for a reflection on the meaning of news, both breaking and not, and the obligations that the United States Constitution imposes on the government in society's ever more demanding quest for news. It asks what burdens the justice system must bear and what risks it must take to provide access to information in the name of "news." The importance of this…