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NEWS MEDIA UPDATE · VIRGINIA · Confidentiality/Privilege · July 14, 2006 News publisher subpoenaed by former federal prosecutor An ex-assistant U.S. attorney under investigation by the Justice Department wants the name of the source who told a newspaper details about the probe. July 14, 2006 · A former assistant U.S. attorney has subpoenaed Gannett Co.…

NMU TEXAS Confidentiality/Privilege Sep 5, 2001 Author’s incarceration sets record for journalists in jail Reporters Committee urges Justice Department to follow its own standards, which would free freelance writer Vanessa Leggett. Freelance book author Vanessa Leggett became the longest-jailed journalist in U.S. history today, marking her 47th day behind bars on a contempt citation for…

An Illinois judge found a Patch.com reporter in contempt of court today for not revealing his confidential sources for a story he wrote about a double murder in Joliet, Ill. Hosey has been fined $1,000 and has to pay court fees. He was also fined $300 a day until he reveals his sources, though the…

AnOregonvideographer is off the hook after prosecutors backed off their bid for unpublished segments of a tape he shot at a rally, which they had planned to present to a grand jury, according to The [Eugene]Register Guard. Tim Lewis invoked the state shield law in court papers filed before a hearing set for Tuesday, only…

In the first ruling under Wisconsin’s new shield law, a judge denied the state Department of Justice’s request to subpoena three journalists who reported on a farmer’s alleged criminal conduct . The justice department was unable to show that the information they seek is unobtainable from other sources, as required by the 2010 law, said…

On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. threw out the appealand the underlying contempt order against former USA Today reporter Toni Locy for refusing to reveal sources related to the government’s investigation of former Army scientist Steven Hatfill. Hatfill sued the government for violating the Privacy Act when his name was leaked to…

A Delaware bankruptcy judge’s order demanding that more than 100 individuals in a case before him disclose all their contacts with any Bloomberg reporters in the last 60 days is overly broad and interferes with reporters’ First Amendment freedoms, the Reporters Committee argued in a letter to the judge on behalf of a media coalition.…

VANCOUVER — Swedish activist Greta Thunberg says those in power need to realize what they are doing to future generations through climate change because if adults really loved children, they would ensure they have a safe future. “But they are not doing that,” she told thousands of people attending a climate rally in Vancouver on…

OTTAWA — The European Union and Germany say they appreciate the “continuity” in Canadian climate change policy that will result from the federal election result. The Liberals won a minority mandate in Monday’s vote after a campaign that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau framed as a fight over protecting the planet from the existential threat of…

Three people have been charged in connection with a protest outside an event featuring People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier in Hamilton, Ont., last month, including a man whose family temporarily shut down their business amid backlash over his participation. The Al Soufi family was forced to close its Toronto restaurant earlier this month…