![]() Journalists rely on confidential sources to write stories that deal with matters of legitimate public importance. The idea behind reporter's privilege is that journalists have a limited First Amendment right not to be forced to reveal information or confidential news sources in court. Senate subcommittee that was investigating freedom of the press. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin, used with permission from the Associated Press.) This photo of Caldwell, talking with syndicated columnist James Kilpatrick was taken in 1973 prior to Caldwell delivering testimony before a U.S. Hayes refused to recognize such a reporter's privilege based on the First Amendment. The Supreme Court in a narrow decision in Branzburg v. The FBI tried to get him to reveal information he learned through his reporting on the Black Panthers. ![]() Reporter Earl Caldwell of the New York Times, left, was involved in a case that went to the Supreme Court concerning whether a reporter's privilege existed to protect journalists from being forced by the government to reveal information that they learned in reporting. ![]()
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