Posts tagged with 'media shield'

Court: blogger isn't a journalist, owes $2.5m

In the age of the internet, every individual may have their own personal printing press, but that doesn't mean that the same legal protections afforded to journalists are always available to bloggers.

Something that Crystal Cox, an Oregon-based blogger who is facing a $2.5m judgment for publishing information an investment firm alleged was defamatory, knows all too well.

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by Patricio Robles 07 December 2011 10:45am 2 comments