Cite as: 44 CNCA § 23

For the purposes of this act:

1. "Cherokee Nation proceeding" includes any proceeding or investigation before or by any judicial, legislative, executive or administrative body within Cherokee Nation.

2. "Information" includes any written, oral or pictorial news or any digital or tangible record.

3. "Journalist" means any person who is a reporter, photographer, editor, commentator, journalist, correspondent, announcer, videographer, or other individual regularly engaged in obtaining, writing, reviewing, editing, or otherwise preparing news for any newspaper, periodical, press association, newspaper syndicate, wire service, website, radio or television station, or other news service. Any individual employed by any such news service in the performance of any of the above-mentioned activities shall be deemed to be regularly engaged in such activities.

4. "Medium of communication" includes any newspaper, other periodical, book, pamphlet, website, podcast, news service, wire service, news or feature syndicate, broadcast station or network, cable television system, video, live stream, or other record.

5. "Processing" includes compiling, storing and editing of information.

6. "Published information" means any information disseminated to the public by the person from whom disclosure is sought.

7. "Unpublished information" includes information not disseminated to the public by the person from whom disclosure is sought, whether or not related information has been disseminated, and includes, but is not limited to, all notes, outtakes, photographs, video clips or other data of any type not itself disseminated to the public through a medium of communication, whether or not published information based upon or related to such material has been disseminated.

Historical Data

LA 13–12, eff. April 20, 2012.