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Magazine decides to hand over reporter’s notes

Publish date: 05 July 2005
Issue Number: 1370
Diary: Legalbrief Today
Category: Media

While two US journalists have vowed they would rather go to jail than reveal their sources, at least one of their employers has buckled and agreed to hand over the notes of its journalist.

Time magazine, reports The Globe and Mail, will hand over the notebooks of Matthew Cooper to a grand jury probing the leak of a covert CIA operative\'s name, in a move that raises questions about press freedom in the US. The move follows a judge giving Cooper and Judith Miller of The New York Times a week before sentencing them for refusing to reveal their sources to the grand jury. Cooper said he would rather Time did not hand over the papers, but conceded that ‘a corporation is different than a citizen and has different obligations’. Full report in The Globe and Mail

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