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Police Raid Raises Question: Are Bloggers Journalists?

(April 27) -- The saga of the wayward iPhone 4G just got even stranger. Jason Chen, the Gizmodo editor who made headlines last week with stories about the prototype device his tech blog purchased, came home Friday night to find police had broken into his house and confiscated his computers. Gizmodo, a Gawker Media blog,...

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12/08/11 Dan Kennedy: The Real Danger in That... Source: The Huffington Post You may have heard that a Montana blogger must pay a $2.5 million libel judgment because a federal judge ruled she was not a journalist, and was thus not entitled to protect her anonymous sources.
06/13/11 Were the Pentagon Papers the WikiLeaks of its day? Source: Telegraph - London - UK During his trial, however, it emerged that Nixon operatives responsible for the Watergate scandal had also burgled him and his psychiatrist in an attempt to discredit him, and he was released.
12/29/10 Abrams on Wikileaks Source: Politico Mr. Assange is no boon to American journalists.
First Amendment disputes take no summer vacation