Panel says ‘shield law’ applies to Web reporter JOLIET — Illinois Appellate Court justices have reversed a lower court ruling that had ordered a journalist to reveal the source of a leak in a northern Illinois double-murder case. Monday’s decision also does away with a contempt of court ruling against Joseph Hosey, a reporter and editor for the AOL news website Patch, who refused to reveal the source. In his reporting about the January 2013 killings in Joliet, Hosey included details from …