A politician stands accused of killing investigative journalist Jeff German, and it's opened up a scary question: What's more important, a murder investigation or the freedom of the press?
suspect disguised in a floppy hat and garb commonly worn by local road workers, the investigation quickly led them to the 45-year-old probate lawyer’s home located a 10-minute drive from the murder scene.
argue that state and federal reporters’ shield laws not only apply to the deceased reporter’s devices, but extend to members of its investigative team, Publisher and Editor Keith Moyer, “who are charged with carrying on the work of Jeff German in the wake of his death.”experts and advocates agree that German’s death doesn’t invalidate the state’s shield law, which is designed to protect journalists from revealing sources and work product.
“Legislators [in Nevada] saw it important for whistleblowers to be protected, for sources to be protected,” IRE Executive Director Diana Fuentes says. “We talk about a shield law for reporters and journalists. It’s really a shield for sources.” On Monday afternoon, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press was joined by 54 media organizations in its“Permitting government investigators to freely review privileged information from the Seized Devices threatens to chill vital newsgathering activity and could subject numerous sources, including sources inside the government agencies, to retaliation, harassment, and personal harm – precisely the outcomes the Shield Law was enacted to prevent,” attorneys for the Reporters Committee...
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