Josh Wolf case renews debate on journalist rights
Guilty verdicts for practicing journalism are the stuff of authoritarian nations and now, apparently, UC Berkeley. A campus disciplinary panel has concluded that journalism student Josh Wolf should not have been inside Wheeler Hall on Nov. 20, 2009, during an 11-hour student occupation even though, the panel acknowledged, he was filming the protest as a journalist… For UC Berkeley and its students, Wolf’s guilty verdict also raises questions about First Amendment rights, whether punishing one journalist leads others to censor themselves — known as the chilling effect — and who is a journalist in the first place.
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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.