Reporters and Confidential Sources
Georgetown University’s Free Speech Project and Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute hosted a discussion on the relationsh… read more
Georgetown University’s Free Speech Project and Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute hosted a discussion on the relationship between reporters and their sources, and the procedures and protections in place for the passage of information from the latter to the former. Journalists and former government and military officials discussed issues of classified information, whistleblowers, who decides what is in “the public interest,” and the status of congressional oversight of the country’s national security establishment and infrastructure. close
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