Do Bloggers Have First Amendment Rights?

Issue 1: The Shield Law (Note: This is the first in a series of posts about this topic by Kelsey Browne & Ariel Fox)What is a blogger?   The myriad ways in which blogging takes shape make definition difficult.   Ranging from online diaries to overt advertisements to community newssites, blogs send forth a wide range of varied speech into the world.   How should this speech be regulated, and how should such regulations be reconciled with the First Amendment?   As with non-internet speech, questions of who the speaker is, and what the context and subject of the speech is, remain paramount.  But……