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(VOA) Journalist Standards and Practices - Government Attic 2025

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The document outlines the Voice of America's (VOA) Journalist Standards & Practices and Newsroom Stylebook, detailing the ethical guidelines, journalistic integrity, and operational procedures for VOA journalists. It emphasizes the importance of accuracy, balance, and objectivity in reporting while providing a framework for handling conflicts of interest, copyright issues, and fair use of materials. The document also includes guidelines for conducting interviews, maintaining credibility through a firewall policy that separates journalism from government influence, and ensuring compliance with legal standards regarding copyright and trademarks.

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What legislation protects journalists?

The PRESS Act protects all journalists, regardless of political leanings or establishment credentials, from government surveillance and overdocHub.

What law protects reporters sources?

Superior Court, Californias shield law provides absolute protection to nonparty journalists in civil litigation from being compelled to disclose unpublished information. 51 Cal.

What are the standards of good journalism?

Truth, accuracy, and objectivity are cornerstones of journalism ethics. Journalists are encouraged to maintain a degree of detachment from the religions, groups, or countries they are associated with, in order to minimize potential biases in their reporting.

Should reporters have to reveal their sources?

Most federal circuit courts and many state courts have cited Branzburg in ruling that journalists have some type of qualified First Amendment privilege to protect their sources, meaning that under certain circumstances reporters can still be forced to reveal their sources.

Can federal courts for journalists to reveal their sources of information?

In the U.S., there have been occasions where reporters have been jailed for contempt of court for refusing to reveal a source of information, but the higher courts have generally held that to be a First Amendment violation, as it impairs a journalists ability to gather information confidentially.

Do reporters have to reveal their sources?

There is no federally recognized privilege that allows reporters to keep their sources confidential, but the Supreme Court has found that news gathering is not without First Amendment protections.

Who was the reporter in jail for not revealing source?

In 2005, facing federal court proceedings for refusing to divulge a source in the Plame affair criminal investigation, Miller spent 85 days in jail in Alexandria, Va. (where French terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui was also held). After her release, the Times Public Editor Byron Calame wrote: Ms.

What are the standards of VOA?

VOA will serve as a consistently reliable and authoritative source of news. VOA news will be accurate, objective, and comprehensive. VOA will represent America, not any single segment of American society, and will therefore present a balanced and comprehensive projection of docHub American thought and institutions.

(VOA) Journalist Standards and Practices - Government Attic 2025

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