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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="9-112" title_number="9" title_name="Witnesses" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Competence, Compellability, and Privilege">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “news media” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Newspapers;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Magazines;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Journals;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Press associations;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>News agencies;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Wire services;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Radio;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>Television; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>Any printed, photographic, mechanical, or electronic means of disseminating news and information to the public.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The provisions of this section apply to any person who is, or has been:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Employed by the news media in any news gathering or news disseminating capacity;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An independent contractor of the news media acting within the scope of a contract in any news gathering or news disseminating capacity; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Enrolled as a student in an institution of postsecondary education and engaged in any news gathering or news disseminating capacity recognized by the institution as a scholastic activity or in conjunction with an activity sponsored, funded, managed, or supervised by school staff or faculty.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, any judicial, legislative, or administrative body, or anybody that has the power to issue subpoenas may not compel any person described in subsection (b) of this section to disclose:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The source of any news or information procured by the person while employed by the news media or while enrolled as a student, whether or not the source has been promised confidentiality; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any news or information procured by the person while employed by the news media or while acting as an independent contractor of the news media, in the course of pursuing a professional activity, or any news or information procured by the person while enrolled as a student, in the course of pursuing a scholastic activity or in conjunction with an activity sponsored, funded, managed, or supervised by school staff or faculty, for communication to the public but which is not so communicated, in whole or in part, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Notes;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Outtakes;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Photographs or photographic negatives;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Video and sound tapes;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Film; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Other data, irrespective of its nature, not itself disseminated in any manner to the public.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A court may compel disclosure of news or information, if the court finds that the party seeking news or information protected under subsection (c)(2) of this section has established by clear and convincing evidence that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The news or information is relevant to a significant legal issue before any judicial, legislative, or administrative body, or anybody that has the power to issue subpoenas;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The news or information could not, with due diligence, be obtained by any alternate means; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>There is an overriding public interest in disclosure.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A court may not compel disclosure under this subsection of the source of any news or information protected under subsection (c)(1) of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>If any person described in subsection (b) of this section disseminates a source of any news or information, or any portion of the news or information procured while pursuing an activity described in subsection (b) of this section, the protection from compelled disclosure under this section is not waived by the person.</text>
  </level>
</section>
