As used in this chapter:
(1)"Expanded news media coverage " includes broadcasting, recording, photographing, and live electronic reporting of judicial proceedings by the news media for gathering and disseminating news in any medium. Expanded news media coverage is limited to the news media unless otherwise ordered by the judicial officer.(2)"Good cause " for purposes of exclusion under this chapter means that coverage will have a substantial effect upon the objector that would be qualitatively different from the effect on members of the public in general.(3)"Judicial officer " means the magistrate, district associate judge, or district judge presiding in a trial court proceeding, or the presiding judge or justice in an appellate proceeding.(4)"Judicial proceedings" or "proceedings" includes all public trials, hearings, or other proceedings in a trial or appellate court, including those occurring in person or remotely by video or teleconference, for which expanded news media coverage is requested, except those specifically excluded by this chapter.(5)"News media " includes any person who regularly gathers, prepares, photographs, records, writes, edits, reports, or publishes news or information about matters of public interest in any medium and who successfully applies to the news media coordinator to participate in expanded news media coverage and agrees to comply with all court rules.(6)"News media coordinator " includes news media coordinating councils as well as the designees of such coordinators or councils.R. Exapand. New. Media Cov. 25.1
Court Order November 9, 2001, effective 2/15/2002; 4/2/2014, effective 5/1/2014; court order January 14, 2022, effective 1/14/2022.