Reporter Faces Jail for Failing to Name Source
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.  - A federal judge convicted a  Rhode Island television reporter of criminal contempt on  Thursday for refusing to reveal the identity of a source.
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A former New York Times reporter, who was jailed during the CIA leak investigation, testified Tuesday that Lewis "Scooter" Libby told her the identity of an outed CIA operative weeks before the date he told investigators he had learned of the agent's identity. The timeline in the case is key as Libby is accused of lying to a grand jury about what he knew and when. Judith Miller served 85 days in jail in 2005 for refusing to testify at the grand jury.
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A federal judge is holding five reporters in contempt today for refusing to identify their sources for stories about former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Wen Ho Lee.
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U.S. News & World Report - Judith Miller went to jail in 2005 to protect the identity of her anonymous source. The New York Times reporter who became ensnared in the Valerie Plame leak investigation might not have had to go through the trouble had there been a federal media shield law on the books. The House of Representatives last week took the first steps in establishing such a protection by overwhelmingly passing a piece of legislation that would protect reporters from having to reveal their confidential sources in federal court.
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A Chinese human rights activist who worked as a researcher for the New York Times has been detained on charges of leaking state secrets, said his lawyer on Friday.
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A US reporter who faces jail for refusing to testify on the exposure of a CIA officer says she is still reluctant to disclose her source.
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Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper has avoided the threat of jail by agreeing to be interviewed by Justice Department prosecutors investigating whether White House officials illegally leaked the identity of a covert CIA operative to journalists.
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A TV reporter sentenced to six months of home confinement for refusing to say who leaked him an FBI surveillance video will not appeal his conviction, his station said Tuesday.
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We all want to know about the hotel heiressâs time in jail. The question is whether news organizations should give her money to tell us. A media-ethics expert weighs in.
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The editor of a leading Indonesian magazine was sentenced to jail yesterday in a high profile libel case that rights groups say represents a setback for press freedoms and the country&#39;s emerging democracy.
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A federal judge may hold a former USA Today reporter in contempt if she will not identify sources in stories about an ex-Army scientist under scrutiny in the 2001 anthrax attacks
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WASHINGTON A federal judge in Washington is holding five reporters in contempt for refusing to name their sources for stories about a former nuclear weapons scientist once suspected of spying.
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An Associated Press reporter and four other journalists shouldn't be punished for keeping secret the names of sources for stories about Wen Ho Lee, a former nuclear weapons scientist once suspected of spying, their lawyers told a federal judge Wednesday.
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A New York Times reporter and a Time magazine reporter can be jailed if they continue to refuse to answer questions before a grand jury about their confidential conversations with government sources, a federal appeals court decided this morning.
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A federal judge held five reporters in contempt Wednesday for refusing to identify their sources for stories about Wen Ho Lee, a former nuclear weapons scientist once suspected of spying.
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Two San Francisco Chronicle reporters will avoid jail time after a criminal defense lawyer pleaded guilty Wednesday to leaking them secret grand jury documents from the BALCO steroids investigation.
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WASHINGTON -- A federal judge held a reporter in contempt yesterday for refusing to divulge confidential sources to prosecutors investigating the leak of an undercover CIA officer&#39;s identity.