1.0Committee to Protect Journalistshttps://cpj.orgCPJ Staffhttps://cpj.org/author/john/U.S. PUBLISHER AND EDITOR CONVICTED OF CRIMINAL DEFAMATION - Committee to Protect Journalistsrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="zAsPcefGYi"><a href="https://cpj.org/2002/07/us-publisher-and-editor-convicted-of-criminal-defa/">U.S. PUBLISHER AND EDITOR CONVICTED OF CRIMINAL DEFAMATION</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://cpj.org/2002/07/us-publisher-and-editor-convicted-of-criminal-defa/embed/#?secret=zAsPcefGYi" width="600" height="338" title="“U.S. PUBLISHER AND EDITOR CONVICTED OF CRIMINAL DEFAMATION” — Committee to Protect Journalists" data-secret="zAsPcefGYi" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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New York, July 18, 2002—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) strongly condemns yesterday's verdict convicting a Kansas-based free-circulation monthly, its publisher, and its editor of criminal defamation. Jurors found publisher David W. Carson and editor Ed Powers of The New Observer, as well as Observer Publications Inc., guilty on seven counts of criminal defamation.https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2001/10/colophon.gif