Posts Tagged ‘protection of sources’
October 24th, 2011
A
New York Times reporter may be forced to
reveal his sources, despite a ruling which said his testimony was protected by reporters privilege. On Wednesday, the Department of Justice asked a federal appeals court to force James Risen to testify about his sources in the trial of a CIA officer who was accused of leaking top secret information. In the hearing, federal prosecutors appealed the ruling from a US District
court on 29 July that Risen did not have to reveal his sources in the trial of ex-CIA officer Jeffrey Stirling. Risen’s lawyer Joel Kurtzberg has said they will fight the appeal.
March 8th, 2011
Suzanne Breen has been
awarded damages in her
libel case against the National Union of Journalists. She brought an action for defamation against the NUJ when the union’s magazine
published a member’s letter concerning her stance on protecting sources in articles about the Real IRA. The settlement also included an apology and a retraction.
February 14th, 2011
Journalist and blogger Olena Bilozerska has managed to
recover some of the equipment and material which was
illegally seized from her home in Kiev on 12 January. The police interrogation on 8 February included
questions about her sources. The police returned some items but have kept 162 CDs and DVDs which contain material needed for her work. She regained her camera and video camera, neither of which was working. The authorities also returned her computer, which had been dismantled.
May 13th, 2009
A judge has ruled seized media documents should be returned to Luxembourg’s Portuguese weekly magazine, Contacto. The documents, surrounding a social services case were seized last week and described as a “blatant breach of protection of sources” and a attack on freedom of the press. Read more
here
July 28th, 2008
Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz faces the possibility of a grand jury subpoena despite a Californian federal judgment supporting his right to protect confidential sources on 25 July. Gertz refused to answer questions about confidential sources used in a 16 May 2006 article about a Chinese espionage case, citing his First Amendment rights.
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