Nevada's Top Court Says The State's Journalist Shield Law Also Applies To Bloggers

Nevada's Top Court Says The State's Journalist Shield Law Also Applies To Bloggers

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Some good news for journalists in Nevada, via FourthAmendment.com. A decision made earlier this year by a state court has been reversed, resulting in an expansion of the protections offered by the state's journalist shield law.

In March, Judge James Wilson -- overseeing a defamation lawsuit filed by Storey County Commissioner Lance Gilman against blogger Sam Toll -- decided the journalist shield law only protects journalists who work for printed newspapers. While it acknowledged the 1969 law also covers television journalists, it refused to extend these protections to Sam Toll and his blog, the Storey Teller.