A story that appears on the first page of a newspaper because it is particularly important. A front-page article may be about a major political scandal or an amazing sports accomplishment. It could also be about a celebrity or a new restaurant. If something is front-page, it is widely known and talked about.
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A string of major scoops earned him front-page status at the Times, including a revealing Watergate article about hush money payments to the burglars; a New Yorker exposé on CIA domestic spying; and a report on prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.
In 2014, three Jane Does who had been sex trafficked as minors sued Backpage in federal court, accusing it of facilitating their exploitation by allowing sex predators to post ads selling them for sex. A judge ruled that this was not protected speech under CDA Section 230 and that the law violated the First Amendment. A second appeals court upheld this ruling in August 2013. This was the third strike against state laws attempting to legislate Backpage out of existence, after similar cases were unsuccessfully brought in Washington state and Tennessee.