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Congress Grants Bloggers Journalistic Rights

In a move that diminishes the legal distinctions between bloggers and journalists, on Aug. 1 a congressional panel voted to protect journalists from having to reveal their confidential sources -- and specifically included professional bloggers in the measure.

While casual and hobby bloggers will not benefit from the newly revised Free Flow of Information Act, those that earn either all or part of their income from blogs will be able to enjoy the same protections as their journalist counterparts. Bloggers, many of whom consider themselves journalists whether or not they're officially recognized as such, feel that they should be entitled to the same rights and protections as reporters and applauded the measure as a step in the right direction.

Posted by WOMMA Editor on August 8, 2007 6:16 PM

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Lena West said on August 10, 2007

This is a great thing!

Maybe someone will invent a way for the police to take us seriously when we get death threats. As long as there's progress I'm patient.

I wrote about it - with link love - over on my TechForward blog at Entrepreneur.com: http://techforward.entrepreneur.com/2007/08/10/bloggers-land-journalistic-rights/

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