Kevin Smith, head of the Society of Professional Journalists Ethics Committee, says he laughed when he heard about the program.

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Bergen, one of the producers of the CNN documentary, which was named the best documentary of 2006 by the Society of Professional Journalists and was nominated for an Emmy.

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Her documentary about race relations and tensions in Jena, Louisiana, following the appearance of nooses at the town's high school, earned her the top documentary award from the Society of Professional Journalists.

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Under a federal shield law introduced in 2011, the federal government would have had to prove to a judge that the information it was seeking outweighed the journalist's need to keep confidential information, according to the Society of Professional Journalists.

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For example, the American Society of Journalists and Authors is an organization for professional writers in which you can meet other freelance writers with varying levels of experience.

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