The news organization, citing unnamed former and current officials, said that the withheld information could include intelligence gathering methods, such as "the means that an agency uses to spy on a foreign government".
To have others decide what will and what won't compromise your news-gathering methods?
The two senators told Mr. Mueller that the latest episode bolstered the need for a federal shield law for reporters that would protect sources and news-gathering methods.
In June 2009, he appeared on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, during which the interviewer, Kirsty Young, pressed him about tabloid news-gathering methods.
[Crook goes on to consider in some detail the various laws that affect journalism, such as libel, and the relatively recent outlawing of other news-gathering methods, such as phone-hacking, blagging, doorstepping and paying public officials.
The media mogul emerges as the man I recall well from the years I worked with him – dismissive of authority, railing against a variety of "establishment" enemies and defensive of the paper's news-gathering methods.
Earlier, the judge said phone hacking was established as a news-gathering method at the News of the World before Edmondson returned to the paper in 2004.
This could be bad for Mark Whitaker, CNN's managing editor and the former editor of Newsweek, and for anybody else who continues to see CNN and its news gathering values and methods as a thing apart from cable television.
The disaster and investigations received widespread coverage in the media, assisted by new news gathering technologies.
Tells about the methods of news gathering, the various staffs around the country, the scheduling of the time when the news is broadcast, & the costs (weekly budgets run in excess of $200,000., for N.B.C., for example).
