NEWS MEDIA UPDATE · CONNECTICUT · Confidentiality/Privilege · May 4, 2006 Legislature passes qualified reporter’s shield law The General Assembly, by a large margin, passed a reporter’s shield bill giving the news media a qualified privilege for sources and information. May 4, 2006 · Journalists in Connecticut will have a qualified privilege from revealing sources, …
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Click:全国楼凤论坛 Click:Scalp treatment News Media Update COLORADO Confidentiality/Privilege Military attorney subpoenas newspaper reporter An Air Force defense attorney has subpoenaed a Denver Post reporter’s notes of interviews with an alleged rape victim Dec. 1, 2004 — The Denver Post and reporter Miles Moffeit are fighting a subpoena by a U.S. Air Force court for notes …
· Story link As of Feb. 6, freelance journalist Josh Wolf had been in jail for 169 days for refusing testify before a grand jury and make available video tapes he shot at an anarchist rally in San Francisco in July 2005. That broke the record for jail-time by a journalist for contempt of court. …
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A Marion County, Ind., court ruled that news outlets can be ordered to disclose identifying information about those who post anonymously on the news outlets' websites. Jeffrey Miller, former chief executive of Junior Achievement of Central Indiana, and his wife Cynthia filed a defamation suit last year against Jennifer Burk, current chief executive of Junior …
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· Story link Two Boston Herald newspaper reporters who received defense subpoenas to reveal their sources in a Massachusetts murder case have asked a judge to quash the summonses. The reporters wrote about a letter written by the defendant to his lawyers. Attorneys for the reporters argue that, “In order for reporters to function effectively, …
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A documentary filmmaker in Hawaii who has covered native burial practices might be the first person to assert the state’s new shield law, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. Land developer Joseph Brescia, who has been frustrated in an effort to build on a site where 30 graves were found, is suing the people he claims …
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· Story link The White House push to block a reporter-source shield law appears to have won some Republican backers in the Senate, where the legislation is awaiting a floor vote. “Unfortunately, we have a number of [senators in] the president’s party who told the press they’re for it and have told the White House, …
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Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Executive Director Bruce Brown issued the following statement today following revelations that the U.S. Department of Justice executed a search warrant for e-mail communications between Fox News reporter James Rosen and a confidential source. An affidavit in support of the warrant, filed by the government, alleged that there …
Democratic presidential candidates are squandering a critical early opportunity to mobilize Latino voters ahead of 2020, potentially easing Donald Trump’s path to reelection, according to leading Latino political operatives in battleground states. Interviews with more than a dozen strategists and organizers revealed rising alarm at the lack of attention being paid to Latinos in swing …
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Translated to English, it’s called “the line,” as in a factory production line. ### This illicit system of moving people across borders has become so common that everyone in the hamlet of Do Thanh in Nghe An province seems to know someone who has made the journey. ### “I sent my three sons,” said Phan …
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