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- Title
Protecting Citizen Journalists: Why Congress Should Adopt a Broad Federal Shield Law.
- Authors
Turner, Stephanie B.
- Abstract
The article discusses U.S. legal protections for citizen journalists such as bloggers as of May 2012, focusing on a call for the U.S. Congress to enact a federal shield law to protect an individual's right to refuse to identify confidential sources. The U.S. Supreme Court case Branzburg v. Hayes is addressed, along with several other legal cases which have implemented a qualified constitutional privilege for citizen journalists.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CITIZEN journalists; OFF-the-record information in journalism; UNITED States. Congress; BRANZBURG v. Hayes; ATTRIBUTION of news; PRIVILEGES &; immunities (Law); ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); U.S. states; STATUS (Law)
- Publication
Yale Law & Policy Review, 2012, Vol 30, Issue 2, p503
- ISSN
0740-8048
- Publication type
Article