Results tagged “journalism” from theInput.net

Ars technica reports on a decision by a federal court, extending a journalist's protections to bloggers that conduct journalism on their sites:

No US court has yet weighed in with authority on the debate about whether bloggers count as journalists, but the recent federal decision from South Carolina does indicate that at least some bloggers are journalists. It's not about the title, it's about the content, said Judge Henry Hurlong, Jr.; a journalist turns out to be anyone who does journalism, and bloggers who do so have the same rights and privileges under federal law as the "real" journalists.

With the state of the mainstream media today and the present and future of blogging as an important news source for many people, this decision is critical in protecting a blogger's rights when conducting the same business a newspaper journalist does.