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Whether journalists have the right to refuse totestify in legal proceedings has been a contentiousissue in the United States. Over the past severalyears, it became a hot topic as reporters were calledto testify before a federal grand jury and at trialover who in the Bush Administration outed ValeriePlame as a Central Intelligence Agency spy. Whilereporters were forced to testify in I. Lewis"Scooter" Libby trial, whether a federal law will beenacted to protect journalists is still beforeCongress. This monograph thoroughly discusses thestate of testimonial privilege for journalists inboth the state and federal court systems and beforeCongress. It specifically compares and contrastsIllinois' Reporter's Privilege Act with similar lawsin 31 states and the District of Columbia that grantjournalists some form of testimonial privilege. Itthen analyzes how the Illinois courts have appliedthe law and assesses what protection journalists havein the state.
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A professor of Journalism and director of Student Publications at
Eastern Illinois
University, John M. Ryan holds a Ph.D. in Journalism from
Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale and a master''s degree from the University of Illinois.
Before joining the
faculty at Eastern, Dr. Ryan was a newspaper reporter and editor.
