The Clarion-Ledger's online editor, Hammack has worked for the newspaper on four separate occasions since 1962. In this interview with Terence Smith, he compares the Clarion-Ledger of old with his current workplace.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by Vanessa Leggett, the Houston-based writer who spent 168 days in prison for refusing to turn over her interviews about a Texas murder case to a federal grand jury.