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.
A Detroit Free Press reporter ordered to testify about the confidential sources he used to report on a federal investigation of a former U.S. prosecutor urged the court this week not to compel his testimony.
In papers filed Monday, reporter David Ashenfelter argued that he should not have to testify about his coverage of a Department of Justice misconduct investigation into former assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Convertino.
The Senate Intelligence Committee plans to investigate claims made this week by two former military intelligence officers that they routinely eavesdropped on the private telephone conversations of journalists, aid workers and military officers in Iraq.
Former USA Today reporter Toni Locy urged the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington on Thursday not to throw out her case seeking a reporter’s privilege to keep her sources confidential.
Steven Hatfill, the former Army scientist investigated in the 2001 anthrax attacks, is still battling with former USA Today reporter Toni Locy -- even after his name has been cleared and he’s been awarded a multimillion dollar settlement.
A Detroit Free Press reporter was ordered by a U.S. District Court judge last week to reveal the confidential sources he used to report about a prosecutor’s misconduct in a terrorism case.
A federal judge in California ruled Thursday that Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz will not have to testify about confidential sources who may have given him leaks of grand jury information.
According to the New York Sun, Gertz invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid answering questions in court.
Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz told a federal court Tuesday that protecting the confidentiality of his sources is "absolutely essential" to his ability to do his job.
A Pennsylvania judge quashed controversial subpoenas yesterday, deciding that 15 reporters summoned in a grand jury leak probe will not have to testify about their sources, the Associated Press reported.
