Columbia Journalism Review Like all calamities, the collapse of the Enquirer's 1998 Chiquita investigation delivered unexpected insights, says
Cameron McWhirter, who worked on
the story. "One of the most important for me was a fierce love of shield laws. ...Early on in the crisis, I came to an unavoidable conclusion: keeping a source confidential was at the heart of being a journalist. I told the prosecutor I wouldn’t waive the shield. I clung to it. ...I learned the hard way that a shield law is one of the most important press protections we have."
