There are a lot of documents about illegal activities, like about making/selling drugs for example. Most of them involve some kind of interview with people who are actively involved in those criminal activities. I can imagine that some of those interviews are fake but if they are not, then a journalist might get into having an important knowledge about identities/contacts/places etc. Don’t they then get questioned by a police? I know they would lose their credibility if they gave away this information but don’t they get under pressure to let go of this information to the authorities?
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They are protected by the First and Fifth Amendments. There is no legal requirement to talk to police nor to report criminal activity (except under very specific circumstances, such as with “Mandated Reporters”).
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