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Protecting Journalists’ Sources Without a Shield: Four Proposals
Communication Law and Policy ( IF 0.2 ) Pub Date : 2019-04-03 , DOI: 10.1080/10811680.2019.1586405
Anthony L. Fargo

Journalists’ right to protect the identities of their confidential sources relies on an inconsistent set of court decisions based on constitutional and common law interpretations and state statutes. Efforts to bring some consistency to federal law through the passage of a shield law have stalled while journalists face new threats because of the vulnerability of their communications to discovery and monitoring by third parties. Also, the entry of non-professional communicators into the news ecosystem is causing courts to reevaluate and redefine long-standing protections. This article proposes four ways that sources could be better protected from unmasking without the passage of a shield law: improving whistleblower laws to better protect people who report illegal or unethical actions to the media; vastly reducing the number of government secrets to make “leaking” less attractive or necessary; changing legal strategy to focus on protecting the anonymity of sources instead of the rights of journalists to keep secrets; and more widespread and intelligent use of encrypted applications and software could all improve the security of journalistic sources. Because of the complexity of amending multiple whistleblower protection laws and changing the government’s document classification system, the article argues that the best solutions may be to persuade news organizations to change legal tactics and to use better encryption technology.

中文翻译:

毫无保留地保护记者的消息来源:四个建议

新闻工作者保护其机密消息来源身份的权利取决于法院基于宪法和普通法的解释以及州法规的一系列不一致的判决。当记者面对新的威胁时,由于盾牌法的通过而使联邦法律保持一定一致性的努力被搁置了,因为记者的通讯容易受到第三方的发现和监视。同样,非专业传播者进入新闻生态系统也导致法院重新评估和重新定义长期保护。本文提出了四种方法,可以在不通过屏蔽法的情况下更好地保护消息来源免遭揭露:完善举报人法律,以更好地保护向媒体举报非法或不道德行为的人;大大减少政府机密的数量,以使“泄漏”的吸引力或必要性降低;改变法律战略,将重点放在保护消息来源的匿名性上,而不是新闻记者的保密权上;加密应用程序和软件的更广泛,更智能的使用都可以提高新闻来源的安全性。由于修改多个举报人保护法律和更改政府的文档分类系统非常复杂,因此文章认为,最佳解决方案可能是说服新闻机构更改法律策略并使用更好的加密技术。加密应用程序和软件的更广泛,更智能的使用都可以提高新闻来源的安全性。由于修改多个举报人保护法律和更改政府的文档分类系统非常复杂,因此文章认为,最佳解决方案可能是说服新闻机构更改法律策略并使用更好的加密技术。加密应用程序和软件的更广泛,更智能的使用都可以提高新闻来源的安全性。由于修改多个举报人保护法律和更改政府的文档分类系统非常复杂,因此文章认为,最佳解决方案可能是说服新闻机构更改法律策略并使用更好的加密技术。
更新日期:2019-04-03
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