1st Edition
Journalists and Confidential Sources Colliding Public Interests in the Age of the Leak
By Joseph M Fernandez
Copyright 2021
300 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
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Journalists and Confidential Sources explores the fraught and widespread reliance by journalists on anonymous sources, whistleblowers, and others to whom they owe an obligation of confidentiality. It examines the difficulties afflicting such relationships; analyses the deteriorating "right to know" and freedom of expression frameworks; and explores solutions and reforms.
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Part 1: Overview 1. Journalists and their confidential sources 2. Free societies and the struggle for freedom of communication Part 2: Ethics Codes And Law 3. Journalist-source confidentiality and professional practice codes 4. Journalist-source confidentiality and the law Part 3: Terminology, Minefield, Balancing Interests, Reforms 5. Threshold matters 6. The anonymous sources minefield 7. Balancing competing interests 8. Contemplating the way forward Part 4: Conclusion 9. The way ahead
Biography
Joseph M. Fernandez is an adjunct associate professor at the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University, Australia.
