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Court blurs lines between blogger and journalist

A landmark decision from the New Zealand High Court has provided legal weight to what's already becoming a reality in ray ban outlet media landscape: a blogger serves as a a journalist   a ruling that may renew debate for the issue on both sides with the Tasman.

In an appeal against a defamation case through businessman Matthew Blomfield against notorious blogger Cameron Slater, founder of Whale Oil Beef Hooked, the judge found that Mr Slater could possibly be legally thought as a journalist and, consequently, be given privileges assumed by professional journalists such as the shield law, which will allow him to protect his sources.

Mr Slater stated in his appeal: "The rulesdo not if you have to be this massive corporate. My website has broken numerous storiesI cope with informants and sources and those that want to provide confidential facts about a daily basis."

In delivering the court's finding, Justice Raynor Asher said: "Mr Slater's reports contain genuine new information of interest over a wide range of topicsWhile criticisms can be made of Mr Slater's style and modus operandi, Whale Oil is just not of such inferior that it is not reporting news."

The ruling echoes the meaning of news media outlined in recent discussions in Australia and Nz.

In Australia, the 2012 Finkelstein report rejected from the Australian government recommended privileges afforded to journalists, such as shield law, be extended to bloggers and even "tweeters" who had reached a prescribed audience level.

A 2013 report by the New Zealand Law Commission recommended the broadening of "news media" to add any publisher, in different medium, that met set criteria. This included a proviso a significant proportion of published material must be news, information or opinion of current value. It also recommended the publisher be accountable with a code of ethics plus a complaints process.

This generated the New Zealand Press Council to conduct its current trial membership for bloggers. Chairman with the council's executive committee, Rick Neville, says that in order to be classed as journalists and afforded the associated privileges, bloggers have to take on the corresponding responsibilities.

"It really depends on whether they can fulfill the standards of balance, fairness and objectivity necessary for press council's statement of principles," Mr Neville said.

"That puts quite strong responsibilities on members and some [bloggers] clearly wouldn't meet those standards right now." (Cameron Slater hasn't joined any media standards bodies).

"The onus will probably be on digital media to determine whether they are sufficiently mature   it's around them to prove they can actually behave," Mr Neville said. "Some of these, we know, want legitimacy   but that has to be earned."

News Corp Australia group editorial director Campbell Reid agrees. He believes bloggers needs to be part of the journalism community, if certain the weather is met.

The test for bloggers, Mr Reid said, would be to comply with "laws that make up a pile, as big as a phonebook, that oversee people putting information into the public domain: defamation, contempt, and a myriad of other laws that connect with everybody".

However, excluding bloggers through the privileges enjoyed by mainstream media would be a step towards licencing journalists   an "abhorrent notion", he explained.

News Corp Australia group editorial director Campbell Reid

"The definition of journalist over the internet is a person who has a story," he was quoted saying.

"The journalist is renegade outsider, shining a light on what is happening in societythat's our obligation, and the platform you have, whether it's a TV news bulletin, mainstream newspaper or possibly a blog, if you've got a story that stands quality of accuracy and is also therefore valuable information, then thank you for oakley holbrook visiting the journalism club."

Mr Reid said people disclosing information from the public interest needs to be entitled to legal protection, regardless of which desk they sit under.

"Even though bloggers cause mainstream media embarrassment and discomfort, certainly as the bloggers in Nz have, they've broken a number of the biggest stories in New Zealand of recent times.

It shouldn't be an excuse for mainstream media to rule bloggers out from the game. "It's a party invitation for the mainstream media to execute a better job," he said.

Most active journalists today, Mr Reid talked about, were bloggers and careers in other media.

The Slater decision in Nz   and wider acceptance of digital journalism in a number of new contexts   had "huge ramifications", in accordance with Australian Press Council chairman Julian Disney.

"As we increasingly find journalists being employed by the AFL or the Commonwealth Bank, that [too] raises questions over what extent they're going to have to adhere to traditional standards of journalism," he explained.

Australian Press Council chairman Julian Disney

Professor Disney said simply welcoming bloggers can often mean a tougher bid for privileges for all journalists if bloggers flooded that is a.

"There's a real danger until this could be an illusory victory in that it actually extends the meaning of journalists a great deal that the privileges and incentives are scale back accordingly," he said.

"If we keep that broad definition we will be in trouble, since the people who give those privileges"   from courts to government ministers to corporations   "aren't destined to be willing to allow them to have to journalists, full stop."

He cited shield law cases in Western Australia which, together with NSW, follows oakley sunglasses outlet clearance sale a narrower definition of a journalist as somebody "engaged out there or occupation of journalism", where bloggers have already been denied the authority to protect their sources.

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