As traditional news organizations have struggled to adapt their content and financial models to networked information environments, and community journalism startups have begun to test a variety of new business and organization models, the line between journalistic and commercial expression has become opaque. This article examines the challenges emerging, twenty-first-century media organizations pose to how the courts have historically understood press and commercial-related speech protections. The article analyzes how the Supreme Court of the United States has rationalized its standards for press and commercial safeguards and considers how the Court has decided in recent cases involving citizen publishers who claimed protections historically reserved for traditional journalists. Ultimately, the article draws the building blocks from these ideas to propose how courts can separate the two types of communication in the twenty-first century. In doing so, the article also proposes ways in which such fledgling organizations can ensure they remain journalistic in nature.

随着传统新闻组织努力使其内容和财务模型适应网络信息环境，并且社区新闻初创公司已开始测试各种新的商业和组织模型，新闻和商业表达之间的界限变得不透明。本文探讨了二十一世纪的新兴媒体组织所面临的挑战，这些挑战对法院在历史上如何理解新闻和商业相关的言语保护构成了挑战。这篇文章分析了美国最高法院如何合理化其新闻和商业保障标准，并考虑了法院在最近涉及公民出版商的案件中如何作出判决，这些公民要求保护历史上传统新闻工作者的保护。最终，本文从这些思想中汲取了基础，提出了法院如何在21世纪将两种类型的交流分开的建议。在此过程中，文章还提出了此类新兴组织可以确保其本质上保持新闻性的方式。