New Jersey § 2a:84a-21

§ 2a:84a-21.

Rule 27. 1 Subject to Rule 37, 2 a person engaged on, engaged in, connected with, or employed by news media for the

purpose of gathering, procuring, transmitting, compiling, editing or disseminating

news for the general public or on whose behalf news is so gathered, procured, transmitted,

compiled, edited or disseminated has a privilege to refuse to disclose, in any legal

or quasi-legal proceeding or before any investigative body, including, but not limited

to, any court, grand jury, petit jury, administrative agency, the Legislature or legislative

committee, or elsewhere. a. The source, author, means, agency or person from or through whom any information

was procured, obtained, supplied, furnished, gathered, transmitted, compiled, edited,

disseminated, or delivered; and b. Any news or information obtained in the course of pursuing his professional activities

whether or not it is disseminated. The provisions of this rule insofar as it relates to radio or television stations

shall not apply unless the radio or television station maintains and keeps open for

inspection, for a period of at least 1 year from the date of an actual broadcast or

telecast, an exact recording, transcription, kinescopic film or certified written

transcript of the actual broadcast or telecast. 1

See, now, N.J.R.E. 508. 2

See, now, N.J.R.E. 530.