Chilling Effect: Regional journalists’ source protection and information security practice in the wake of the Snowden and Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) revelations
Bradshaw, Paul (2016) Chilling Effect: Regional journalists’ source protection and information security practice in the wake of the Snowden and Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) revelations. Digital Journalism, 5 (3). pp. 334-352.
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Abstract
Despite reports of widespread interception of communications by the UK government, and revelations that police were using surveillance powers to access journalists’ communications data to identify sources, regional newspaper journalists show few signs of adapting source protection and information security practices to reflect new legal and technological threats, and there is widespread ignorance of what their employers are doing to protect networked systems of production. This paper argues that the “reactive” approach to source protection that seeks to build a legal defence if required, is no longer adequate in the context of workforce monitoring, and that publishers need to update their policies and practice to address ongoing change in the environment for journalists and sources.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2016.1251329 |
| Date: | 17 November 2016 |
| Subjects: | P300 Media studies P500 Journalism |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts, Design and Media > Birmingham School of Media Faculty of Arts, Design and Media > Centre for Media and Cultural Research REF UoA Output Collections > REF2021 UoA34: Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management |
| Depositing User: | Paul Bradshaw |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jun 2017 07:01 |
| Last Modified: | 17 May 2018 03:00 |
| URI: | http://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/4684 |
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