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| Subject: OZschwitz slave pen: Journalist ordered by magistrate to answer questions about his confidential sources Fri Nov 11, 2011 2:48 am | |
| A News Ltd journalist who wrote a front-page story about a highly sensitive counter-terrorism operation has told a court he was alerted to the case by a Victorian policeman.
The Australian's Cameron Stewart was today instructed by a magistrate to answer questions about his confidential sources, despite his objections under the journalists' code of ethics.
Stewart told Melbourne Magistrates Court that policeman Simon Artz alerted him to the top-secret operation in an email exchange on July 28, 2009, in which the officer wrote "something's brewing".
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/reluctant-journalist-reveals-terrorraid-source-20111111-1nam6.html#ixzz1dNfwfMmH
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