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Editor & Publisher Covers Mayor's Ban of Business Journal
"YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- The daily newspaper industry's top trade journal, Editor & Publisher, today reported on Youngstown's mayor banning city employees from talking to The Business Journal -- and connected the situation to the governor of Maryland banning state employees from talking to two reporters from The Baltimore Sun.Mayor George M. McKelvey sent a letter last week to Andrea Wood, publisher of The Business Journal, announcing the ban which, he wrote, was based on his determination that the newspaper is "untrustworthy" and "irresponsible."Editor & Publisher reporter Joe Strupp contacted McKelvey, who told him: "I am a stickler for honesty. If someone in my business deems a reporter to be untrustworthy or irresponsible, they have the discretionary authority not to speak with them," McKelvey told the trade journal.According to the account, "McKelvey would not specify what led him to deem Business Journal reporters untrustworthy or dishonest. 'I am not going to go there,' he said."Wood told Editor & Publisher the newspaper is reviewing its legal options. Earlier this year The Business Journal won a lawsuit against McKelvey and the city for illegally withholding public records related to the purchase of the land where the federally funded convocation center is being built. The city was ordered to pay the newspaper's legal fees. It has until Friday to file an appeal.The Baltimore Sun has sued Marlyand Gov. Robert Ehrlich claiming his gag order is a violation of the First Amendment. The difference between the two situations is that Gov. Ehrlich has banned state employees from talking to two of the newspaper's employees which McKelvey has banned city employees from talking to any of the newspaper's employees.MORE: Full text of Editor & Publisher article www.editorandpublisher.com"