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: | 10.1080/21670811.2016.1251329 |
Dates: | Date Event 17 November 2016 Published |
Subjects: | CAH24 - media, journalism and communications > CAH24-01 - media, journalism and communications > CAH24-01-05 - media studies CAH24 - media, journalism and communications > CAH24-01 - media, journalism and communications > CAH24-01-04 - journalism |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts, Design and Media > College of English and Media |
Depositing User: | Paul Bradshaw |
Date Deposited: | 21 Jun 2017 07:01 |
Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2023 16:17 |
URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/4684 |
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