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• U.S. Senate: Free Flow of Information Act

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  To maintain the free flow of information to the public byproviding conditions for the federally compelled disclosureof information by certain persons connected with thenews media.United States SenateFull Text of S. 448, Final Substitution, Dated October 29, 2010With the support of the Obama administration, the final ...
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• U.S. Senate: Free Flow of Information Act

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  To maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media.United States SenateFree Flow Of Information ActWith the support of the Obama administration, the final substitute press shield bill, to ...
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• U.S. Senate: Free Flow of Information Act

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  To maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media.United States SenateFree Flow Of Information ActWith the support of the Obama administration, the final substitute press shield bill, to ...
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• Dear government: Stop trying to have it both ways on bloggers

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 797
  Filed under: Media What is it, exactly, that some officials in Washington, D.C., have against bloggers? I dont know, but its requiring them to adopt uncomfortable intellectual poses to justify their prejudice. Last month, the Federal Trade commission adopted new guidelines governing endorsements and ...
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• Shield law: Definition of a journalist still up for grabs

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 721
  Thanks to the American Society of News Editors , we can now read the compromise shield law hashed out last week by the White House, news-industry lobbyists, and the Senate Judiciary Committee. There are plenty of moving parts here, but I’ve been focused on the law’s definition of a journalist, as have ...
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• Did newspapers and bloggers frame the shield law debate differently?

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 721
  The recent news that the Senate reached a compromise on the passage of a federal shield law for journalists — a compromise that appears to extend shield coverage to bloggers and freelance journalists as well as more “traditional reporters — reminded me of some interesting findings in one of my unpublished ...
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• Obama Wrong on Fox, Right on Journalists’ Shield Law

  
  THE SAME ROWDY CROWD — Authority: 126
  The Obama administration has gone one for two on issues with the media recently — and it’s gotten the most important one right. I think they’ve muffed it on Fox — good lord, grow a thicker skin and don’t give those twerps the satisfaction of successfully picking a fight with you. Cable shows draw less than ...
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• Investigative Reporters (Even Unpaid Bloggers) Closer Than Ever to Legal Protection

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 804
  Even as newspapers struggle to find a working business model , these days especially everyone acknowledges the work they have traditionally done — specifically investigative reporting — is essential. So essential, in fact, that investigative reporters deserve protection under the law. As the Obama ...
  2 weeks ago

• Senators, White House reach shield law compromise

  
  CNN Political Ticker — Authority: 850
  Senators, White House reach shield law compromise . WASHINGTON (CNN) – Two senators are taking another shot at crafting a law that would protect journalists from having to reveal the identity of their sources. Democratic Sens. Arlen Specter and Charles Schumer released details Friday of a revised version ...
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• Its Now or Never For Citizen Journalists and Federal Shield Law

  
  learning.now — Authority: 680
  When Sen. Charles Schumer amended the Senates bill to exclude unpaid reporters, bloggers, and citizen journalists from a proposed federal shield law, many in the Internet and journalism community were outraged. In the wake of the change, MediaShift published an article that argued Why Bloggers and Citizen ...
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• Shield Law Compromise Would Protect Reporters and Bloggers

  
  The Caucus — Authority: 781
  After a long delay, a compromise proposal to protect journalists who refuse to reveal their sources may lead to Congressional action.
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• Four in the morning

  
  gary scott — Authority: 474
  1. Caught on tape: A spokesman for Attorney General Jerry Browns office admits to surreptitiously taping conversation with reporters when questioned by the San Francisco Chronicle. Taping a phone conversation without informing the other party is illegal in California. Now the secret recordings the AGs office made ...
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• Shield Law Compromise Would Protect Reporters and Bloggers

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  After a long delay, a compromise proposal to protect journalists who refuse to reveal their sources may lead to Congressional action.
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• Geanne Rosenberg: Protections for journalists shouldn’t just apply to the ones collecting paychecks

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 721
  [Our friend Geanne Rosenberg is both a journalist and a lawyer, so shes well positioned to analyze the ongoing legal controversy surrounding student journalists at Northwestern. Geanne is founding chair of the Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions at CUNYs Baruch College in New York. —Ed.] ...
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• Shield Law? What Shield Law? Police Just Get Reporters Phone Re...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 164
  While there are still debates over proposals for a federal shield law to protect journalists from having to reveal sources, California already has a shield law for journalists , but what good does it do if authorities totally ignore it. read more
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• American media need innovation, not subsidy

  
  Pursuing the Complete Community Connection — Authority: 123
  Whatever else it is, The Reconstruction of American Journalism is not comprehensive.Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of the Washington Post, and Michael Schudson, authors of the Columbia University report, described their work in the Post today as a “comprehensive report.” They recommend federal ...
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• Why Bloggers and Citizen Journalists Deserve A Shield Law

  
  learning.now — Authority: 680
  Today in the United States, there is no legislation that allows bloggers to protect their sources. Yet bloggers have become a great way for the public -- and journalists in particular -- to keep informed about important topics. A survey from Middleberg Communications and the Society for New Communications Research ...
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• Everybody’s got to start somewhere

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 489
  Senator Charles Schumer Senator Schumer amendment would remove bloggers from shield law by Tim Jones EFF Since 2007, Congress has been slowly considering The Free Flow Of Information Act . The bill is intended to prevent reporters from being forced to reveal the identity of anonymous sources. It was ...
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• A Change That’s Hard to Believe In

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 159
  from The Columbia Journalism Review There’s a reason why people don’t trust politicians’ promises: from time to time, they go back on them. That’s exactly what seems to be happening this week, as the Obama administration has communicated to Capitol Hill that the administration will only support the Free ...
  6 weeks ago

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