A bill to assure the free flow of information to the public.

Summary

Provides that no person employed in a journalistic or reportorial capacity by, or independently engaged in gathering information for, any newspaper, magazine, wire service, or the news bureau of any radio or television station or network shall be required to disclose before the Congress, or any Federal court, grand jury, or administrative body: (1) any information or material, written or otherwise, obtained for publication by such newspaper or magazine, transmission by such wire service, or broadcast by such station or network, or (2) the source of any such information or material.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 11 January 1973

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