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October 11, 2013 03:34 pm PDT

What effect does mass surveillance have on journalism in the US? We're finding out. It's notgood.

" Mass surveillance of the kind practiced by the NSA produces a chilling effect on journalism, because sources do not feel they can have a private conversation with a reporter." That's the takeaway from a public comment issued by a group of scholars, journalists, and researchers from Columbia Journalism School and the MIT Center for Civic Media, responding to theReview Group on Intelligence and Communication Technologiesconvened by President Obama.







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