Contenidos : Preface
Election day
Reckless disregard
Mystery mail and the box in the courthouse
Tax day
Day of the gaggle
US vs. us
The leaks police
The don of defamation
Fake fake news
Insecure
Weinstein & Co
Alice in FOIA-land
A world of trouble
One morning a letter
Afterword: The First Amendment is dead: a love story

McGraw recounts his experiences as the top newsroom lawyer for The New York Times during the most turbulent era for journalism in generations. [This book] shares McGraw's battle experiences as The Times's Deputy General Counsel since 2002, leading the paper's fight for freedom of information, defending it against libel suits, and providing legal counsel to the reporters breaking the biggest stories. From Hillary Clinton's email investigation to Trump's tax returns, McGraw is at the center of the editors' decisions about what news is fit to print. An exclusive look inside the hard legal decisions behind some of the Times's most controversial and impactful stories of the twenty-first century, McGraw's memoir is not only a narrative of the nation's best journalists in the trenches but a love letter celebrating freedom of the press. --Adapted from publisher description.