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What Defines a Journalist?
Posted by Ernest Miller on Friday, September 07 @ 01:01:04 EDT Free Expression
Mediachannel.org publishes an opinion piece making the point that in the world of the Internet everyone can be a journalist and thus, traditional definitions of journalists (particularly in legal contexts) must be reviewed (When Is A Journalist A Journalist?). Newsweek gives Vanessa Leggett, whose status as a journalist has been challenged, an editorial (My Turn: My Principles Have Landed Me in Jail) [Ed. - Does Being Published in Newsweek Automatically Grant Her Journalist Status?] Gratuitous link to the Drudge Report.
 
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