Alabama Code Section 12-21-142

Exemption of news-gathering persons from disclosing sources.

No person engaged in, connected with or employed on any newspaper,
radio broadcasting station or television station, while engaged in a
news-gathering capacity, shall be compelled to disclose in any legal
proceeding or trial, before any court or before a grand jury of any
court, before the presiding officer of any tribunal or his agent or
agents or before any committee of the Legislature or elsewhere the
sources of any information procured or obtained by him and published in
the newspaper, broadcast by any broadcasting station, or televised by
any television station on which he is engaged, connected with or
employed.

 

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