Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, September 25) — Journalists and members of the media across various platforms, including print, broadcast, wire service, or electronic, are now exempted from revealing news sources that opt to remain confidential.
President Rodrigo Duterte signed the expanded “Sotto Law” that extends the exemption to publishers, owners, journalists, writers, reporters, contributors, opinion writers, editors, columnists, managers, and media practitioners for any “print, broadcast, wire service organization, or electronic mass media.”
The law signed in August but released to the public on Wednesday amended Republic Act No. 53 which only exempted reporters, publishers, editors and columnists of “any newspaper, magazine, or periodic of general circulation.” It was signed on October 1946, before digital media emerged.
