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Revisions to proposed journalism shield law would exclude websites like WikiLeaks
August 06, 2010
(Knight Centre) After more than 75,000 classified documents about the Afghanistan war were released on the WikiLeaks website, U.S. democratic senators are re-working a proposed shield law to specify that the protections for refusing to name anonymous sources would apply only to "traditional news-gathering activities" and not to websites like WikiLeaks, according to The New York Times.
An editorial in the Los Angeles Times highlights the challenge in defining journalism in a digital age. For example, the New York Times posted some of the same documents as WikiLeaks.