Everything online journalists need to protect their legal rights. This free resource culls from all Reporters Committee resources and includes exclusive content on digital media law issues.
Digital Journalist's Legal Guide
Qualified privilege
A qualified privilege balances the journalist's interest in confidentiality with the interest of the party seeking the reporter's evidence. A qualified privilege can be overcome if the opposing interest is sufficiently important. To overcome a qualified privilege, the party will generally have to show that the information in the reporter's possession is essential to the case, that it goes to the heart of the matter before the court and that it cannot be obtained from an alternative, non-journalist source.
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