Last week, as the Senate Judiciary Committee prepared to vote on a federal shield law, I wrote about the competing definitions of a journalist in the House and Senate versions of the bill. Well, I ...

Thanks to the American Society of News Editors, we can now read the compromise shield law hashed out last week by the White House, news-industry lobbyists, and the Senate Judiciary Committee. There ...

UPDATE (12:20 p.m.): This bill and the amendment passed 13-to-5 in committee. A new media shield law expected to pass committee on Thursday broadens the definition of "journalist" to include, among ...