Welcome to the Articolo 9 Art Consultation Journalistic blog. This news platform keeps its readers informed about current, significant art world news regarding cultural heritage protection, art theft and art crimes, art markets, art exhibitions and more. Frequent posts will be made on this blog media platform.
Occassionally, this art crimes investigative journalist team gathers. From left to right: Jill Rackmill, Charles Vincent Sabba, Brian Ross and William P. Youngworth III. This photo was taken at the New York Athletic Association located at 180 Central Park South, New York, N.Y.
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We at Art.9 Art Consulting News have a mission to bring to our readers significant art world news and are dedicated to providing thoroughly vetted stories, writings and news that has been verified as true and reliable. We will discuss the art world and its operatives in a fair and impartial manner and will guard our reputations and honor in our reporting and work. In the State of New Jersey, a blogger is viewed as a legitimate journalist under the State's shield law and qualifies for the protections that the law provides. The judiciary considers whether or not that blogger has a connection to news media and whether his/her true purpose is to disseminate news. The judiciary also considers whether the blogger obtained his/her information through professional news gathering techniques and activities, such as talking to reliable sources, attending events, and the use of Open Public Records Acts and other similar methods used by news media organizations. The work product must prove newsworthy.
Our previous art crimes investigative journalist team. This photo was taken at Luciano's Ristorante, Rahway, New Jersey.
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The State of New Jersey first adopted a reporter's privilege in 1933 and today N.J.s news reporter privilege offers some of the strongest in the nation. The N.J. Supreme Court has ruled that "the legislative intent in adopting this statute ...as seeking to protect the confidential sources of the press as well as the information so obtained by reporters and other media representatives to the greatest extent permitted by the Constitution of the United States and that of New Jersey."The definition of reporter has been given a broad definition. Because of the strong nature of New Jersey's Reporter Privilege, reporters cannot be forced to give up their sources. Subpoenas are rarely served to reporters and they are swiftly withdrawn after the reporter's lawyer invokes the privilege in writing.
Part of our mission is to protect our sources identities. This responsibility will be maintained without exception.
Portraits of former ABC Primetime Anchor Brian Ross in conversation with Jill Rackmill. Oil on canvas, detail of larger painting, 2009, Charles Vincent Sabba Jr.
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Obviously, not all bloggers are considered mainstream media but journalists do blog and the protections they receive from the First Amendment and all of the various states and their supreme courts are the same as if they were reporting using traditional news platforms. There is no such thing as government licensing of journalists in the United States of America and now much of the mainstream media uses the world wide web to disseminate their news. Regarding the question of whether or not a blogger was journalist when they claim the reporter's privilege in court, the federal appellate court crafted a test that examined the blogger/journalist's intent and the work they are performing. "We hold that the individual claiming the privilege must demonstrate, through competent evidence, the intent to use material sought, gathered or received to disseminate information to the public and that such intent existed at the inception of the news gathering prossess." Kurt B. Opsahl is an attorney that represents the Electric Frontier Foundation, a non-profit organization that fights for the civil liberties of journalists who use the internet and other new technologies. Opsahl has stated in the past that the news media is changing and he feels it is necessary that bloggers who practice journalism should receive the protections of reporter's privilege. He was once quoted as saying "the democratization of media inherent in blogging allowing any individual with limited investment to get on that soapbox and speak to an audience of millions is adding great things to the public debate and it is critical to the free flow of information that this new form of media be able to promise confidentiality to their sources."
Portraits of investigative journalist Jill Rackmill in conversation with the late Harold Smith (fine art loss adjuster). Oil on canvas, detail of larger painting, 2009, Charles Vincent Sabba Jr.
Portraits of Billy Youngworth in conversation with Tom Mashberg, a former reporter for the Boston Herald. Oil on canvas, detail of larger painting, 2009, Charles Vincent Sabba Jr.
From left to right: Brian Ross, Charles Sabba and Jill Rackmill.
William P. Youngworth III and Brian Ross. This photo was taken at the New York Athletic Association located at 180 Central Park South, New York, N.Y.
William P. Youngworth with artist/ art loss consultant/ art world investigative journalist Charles Vincent Sabba Jr.
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Some of my earliest reporting was coverage of the Italian Government's legal fight to recovery the Euphronious Crater and the Morgantina Silver (these art treasures were returned to Italy, the Euphronious Crater in 2008 and the Morgantina silver in 2010). I authored and published numerous articles on art crime and cultural property protection in the newspaper America Oggi, N.Y. Italy, La Voce di New York and on the Roll Call blog page of Your Brush With the Law, to name only a few.
Manet's Chez Tortoni, Stolen From the Gardner Museum; fingerpainted in fingerprint ink on an official police fingerprint card that was tinted with burnt siena oil paint, 2004, by Charles Vincent Sabba Jr.
William P. Youngwoth and Brian Ross, who served as Chief Investigative Correspondent for ABC News until 2018. Brian joined the Law & Crime Network in 2018 as Chief Investigative Correspondant.
