New Jersey’s press shield law applies to online news reporters but not to bloggers merely claiming to be journalists, a state appeals court ruled on Thursday.
“Simply put, new media should not be confused with news media,” the judges said in Too Much Media v. Hale, A-0964-09, the first N.J. appellate ruling and only the second in any state to address whether bloggers can invoke the newspersons’ privilege to protect the identity of their sources.
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