Safe Freelancing: Tips On Avoiding Libel Charges

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Avoid a freelancer's worst nightmare -- the libel suit -- with tips from experts on media law

By E.B. Boyd - July 24, 2007

You're out on your own. You're making a living as a freelance writer. You work hard to get assignments and even harder to deliver them. The last thing you want to worry about is a lawsuit. But the recent libel complaint filed against freelancer Susan Paterno, who wrote about infighting at the Santa Barbara News-Press in the December/January issueDecember/January issue<...

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