Full Description
National security reporting has long involved tension between governmental efforts to protect against threats to our collective well-being and journalism's efforts to inform the public and hold state actors to account. Attempts to balance the needs and duties of government and journalism are increasingly challenged by pervasive misinformation and disinformation, the rise of alternative "news" sources, distrust of traditional media and government, and both legal challenges to and external threats against journalists.
National Security, Journalism, and Law in an Age of Information Warfare describes the professional and ethical challenges faced by journalists covering national security, lawyers litigating national security issues, and government institutions entrusted with protected secrets in a context of information disorder. This book helps one to understand how secret keepers, journalists, and sources are navigating unprecedented challenges in an age when trust in institutions is low and the spread of disinformation through social media undermines efforts to inform and protect the public. The volume explores the rise of deception and disinformation, new clashes over executive power and national security, and changing norms of privacy and transparency in the age of social media.
This collection of indispensable essays provides an array of perspectives on difficult problems and provides illuminating answers that can help government and journalism develop better policies and practices.
Contents
FOREWORD: Gordon Stables
EDITORS' INTRODUCTION: Marc Ambinder, Jennifer R. Henrichsen, and Connie Rosati
PART I: Rights and Duties of Journalists and News Organizations
1 Frederick Schauer, "On Obtaining National Security Information"
2 Matthew L. Schafer, "National Security and Access, a Structural Perspective"
3 Hannah Bloch-Wehba, "A Fourth Amendment Press Clause"
4 Marc Ambinder, "Higher Restraint: National Security Reporting in An Age of Information Anarchy"
5 Allison Puccioni, "Open Source Imagery Intelligence: Security Implications in an Era of Unprecedented Access to Satellite Data"
PART II: Government Pushback and Governmental Duties to Journalists and News Organizations
6 George W. Croner, "The Government Pushes Back: Prosecuting Julian Assange in the War Against Leaks - Trend or Aberration?"
7 Deborah L. Dwyer, "Watchdogs in the Digital Age: Digital Surveillance, Information Security, and the Evolution of Journalist-Confidential Source Relationships"
8 Barry J. Pollack and Brian J. Fleming, "Charging Journalists Under the Espionage Act: Have We Reached a Tipping Point?"
9 David R. Carroll, "Using UK Law to Investigate Misuse of Data During the 2016 US Election: Cambridge Analytica and the Internationalization of Voter Analytics"
10 Jennifer R. Henrichsen, "Digital Shackles: The Political Economy of Surveillance Technologies and the Emergence of Transnational Surveillance Fascism"
11 Jennifer R. Henrichsen, Hannah Bloch-Wehba, Gabe Rottman, Grayson Clary, and Emily Hockett, "Digital Surveillance and Its Impact on Media Freedom: Navigating the Legal Landscape"
PART III: National Security, Journalism, and the Digital Media Ecosystem
12 Christopher J. Fuller, "Enemies Foreign and Domestic: America's Media Ecosystem and the Externalization of Domestic Threats"
13 Susan E. McGregor, "Securing the Digital Media Ecosystem"
14 Courtney C. Radsch, "On the Frontlines of the Information Wars: How Algorithmic Gatekeepers and National Security Impact Journalism"
15 Susan D. Moeller, "Weaponizing Images"
