Ruled not a journalist, Oregon blogger loses $2.5 million defamation suit in federal court
donal brown
December 7, 2011
A blogger who wrote critical articles about an investment firm lost a $2.5 million defamation suit to the firm after an U.S. District Court judge ruled that she was not a journalist so not under the protection of the Oregon media shield law. She could not therefore withhold the identity of a source needed to verify the one statement that the judge found libelous. -db From a commentary in Seattle Weekly, December 6, 2011, by