This monograph traces the recent legal developments on newsmen's privilege (to keep sources of information confidential) and attempts to synthesize the status of newsmen's privilege in 1974. Some of the current arguments for and against a journalist's privilege are reviewed in regard to both consitutional and statutory approaches to it. And this monograph also reports on a pilot survey of the attitudes of selected law enforcement personnel, which showed decidedly mixed opinions toward the complex issue of newsmen's privilege, and whether and how it should be implemented. (TS)