Tuesday marks a significant battle in the ongoing public war being waged against amaBhungane by the Moti Group and Zunaid Moti personally.
- We return to court on 27 June 2023 to set aside the Moti Group's unprecedented gag order against the #MotiFiles - but also to vindicate the rights of all journalists to receive leaks, and to manage and publish information from them professionally in the public interest without jeopardising sources.
It has also persuaded them to chime in on the Moti Group's repeated refrain the leaked documents on which some of our reporting is based are"stolen" and"confidential" and therefore should be out of bounds to us.Moti's argument would essentially outlaw all leaks-based journalism - or make it practically impossible.
The danger to sources is obvious - as is the motivation: To try to shut down the story - or at least get ahead of it. Moreover, this prior classification regime will shatter the assurance of confidentiality that journalists give to their sources and potential sources.Both for source protection reasons and for the practical integrity of the process, leaks are indivisible.But the relevance of individual documents to legitimate public interest issues is never certain and may change over the course of an investigation.
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