Between privilege and subpoena: Protecting confidential sources

Brand, Robert

doi:10.1080/02560054.2006.9653347

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“…Journalists' need to protect sources represents one of the most central ethical considerations of the profession (Brand 2006). The "chilling effect" that disclosure can have (Goodwin v United Kingdom 1996) includes an increasing unwillingness to give journalists valuable information, so that the public is left uninformed on key issues (Penrod 2004), as well as reluctance by journalists themselves to investigate issues: in 2015 14% of US investigative journalists said that concerns over surveillance had prevented them from pursuing a story or reaching out to a particular source, and 2% had considered leaving the profession entirely (Pew Research Center 2015).…”

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Chilling Effect

Bradshaw

2016

Digital Journalism

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Despite reports of widespread interception of communications by the UK government, and revelations that police were using surveillance powers to access journalists' communications data to identify sources, regional newspaper journalists show few signs of adapting source protection and information security practices to reflect new legal and technological threats, and there is widespread ignorance of what their employers are doing to protect networked systems of production. This paper argues that the 'reactive' approach to source protection, that seeks to build a legal defence if required, is no longer adequate in the context of workforce monitoring, and that publishers need to update their policies and practice to address ongoing change in the environment for journalists and sources.

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Section: Source Relationsmentioning

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Chilling Effect

Bradshaw

2016

Digital Journalism

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Between privilege and subpoena: Protecting confidential sources

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