Protecting Public Interest Reporting: What Is the Future of Journalistic Privilege?
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Questions have recently been raised by the Disclosure Tribunal about the scope and basis of journalistic privilege: does it exist; who is it for; and when should it apply? This paper considers these questions in light of the decisions of courts in Ireland, Canada, Europe and England & Wales. It argues that there is no such thing as journalistic privilege. There is no absolute immunity from scrutiny for any person who describes themselves as a reporter. However, there is a strong argument that the law should recognise an exemption from legal obligations to disclose information; that there should be a presumption that news journalists are entitled to this exemption; but that this should be confined to situations where an exemption is sought in respect of material obtained by a journalist in good faith, the disclosure of which would undermine responsible news gathering practices.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.012 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it