[Mb-civic] Time Will Surrender Reporter's Notes - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Time Will Surrender Reporter's Notes
Magazine Overrules Journalist in Identifying Confidential Source

By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 1, 2005; Page A01

Time magazine yielded to a court order yesterday and agreed to turn over 
documents that identify a confidential source, a rare move by a major 
news organization that Time said it hopes will keep one of its reporters 
out of jail.

The decision to turn over reporter Matthew Cooper's notes and e-mails -- 
over his objections -- represents a victory for special prosecutor 
Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who has pursued access to information about 
journalists' conversations with confidential sources as he investigates 
whether senior administration officials knowingly identified an 
undercover CIA operative to the media. It leaves the New York Times as 
the only news organization still insisting that its reporter would serve 
jail time rather than comply with an order by Chief U.S. District Judge 
Thomas F. Hogan to cooperate with prosecutors.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/30/AR2005063002111.html
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