As they more and more often bump up against the law, (US) bloggers might do well to subscribe to the Media Law blog ("A Blog About Freedom of the Press"). Written by journalist/attorney Robert J. Ambrogi, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association & clearly a guy who asked "why be a member of one derided profession when I can choose two?"
Sample post:
The single-best resource on shield laws
Yesterday’s
jailing of New York Times reporter Judith Miller for refusing to
disclose her sources heightens national attention on reporters’ shield
laws. For anyone wanting to learn more about reporters, subpoenas and
shield laws, there is no better resource on the Web than The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Its special section, Reporters and Federal Subpoenas,
provides in-depth and frequently updated coverage of efforts to enact a
federal shield law as well as of ongoing legal controversies involving
reporters’ subpoenas. A separate section, The Reporter’s Privilege,
is a detailed examination, written in 2002, of the law regarding the
reporter’s privilege in every state and federal circuit. It provides
statutes and cases and discusses both substantive and procedural issues.
Hat tip to Cyberjournalist.net.
