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Jim Taricani is a US-based reporter who served a sentence of six months of home confinement for refusing a court order to divulge a source.Taricani an investigative reporter for WJAR television an NBC affiliate in Cranston Rhode Island refused to reveal who leaked a surveillance tape to him. He was convicted of criminal contempt of court on November 18 2004 and sentenced on December 9 2004 to six months of home confinement.