One of the few remaining states without a reporter Shield Law is moving closer to adopting one. South Dakota’s House of Representatives passed the journalists’ Shield Law last week. The bill now heads to the state Senate. Shield laws protect journalists...
(Story by Carol Thompson) The Free Flow of Information Act, which would be the first federal Shield Law, is not flowing too quickly through Washington. The Free Flow of Information Act passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee last September, but has yet to make it...
The good: a fireball streaks across Russia’s dawn sky and the world learns of it through the dash cam videos uploaded by commuters. The bad: An unedited, user submitted story goes viral, terrifies readers and embarrasses a leading news outlet. The ugly: Syrian...
