All entries tagged: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Geanne Rosenberg: Protections for journalists shouldn’t just apply to the ones collecting paychecks
[Our friend Geanne Rosenberg is both a journalist and a lawyer, so she's 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 CUNY's Baruch College in New York. —Ed.]
Northwestern University Journalism Professor David Protess is accomplishing what [...]
Shield law: Definition of “journalist” gets professionalized
Last week, as the Senate Judiciary Committee prepared to vote on a federal shield law, I wrote about the competing definitions of a journalist in the House and Senate versions of the bill. Well, I have bad news on two fronts: The Judiciary Committee didn’t vote on the shield law, but it did adopt an [...]
