BREAKING: The D.C. Court of Appeals has rejected award-winning journalist Catherine Herridge's bid to protect her sources via reporter's privilege.
This is a significant blow to press freedom for all journalists.
From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:
Journalist and co-founder of Unraveled Press Raven Geary was one of several members of the press shot with crowd-control munitions while reporting outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Friday:
Two journalists are set to be tried in Kentucky this week.
Their crime? Covering a protest of the immigration detainment of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt. Soliman’s lawyer called it a “cruel irony.”
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Jimmy Kimmel's worst case scenario was moving from prime time to a podcast. Mario Guevara's is being shipped to El Salvador and facing more of the persecution he fled 20 years ago.
If that happens, the chilling effect will be impossible to measure.
Your kitchen cabinets? A national security threat.
Your favorite movie? Also a national security threat.
Your favorite cocktail? Possibly also a national security threat.
Here’s our current top five list of the dumbest things officials have done, or kept secret, ostensibly to protect national security.
"Security experts at several news organizations told me they are increasingly concerned about the risk of physical harm."
Read Joel Simon on some simple steps news orgs can take to protect their journalists:
Trump’s EO labeling antifa a “domestic terrorist organization” can and will be used to threaten journalists and sources.
Journalists who cover antifa or report on ICE must now risk being accused of “terrorism.”
The EO is illegal, but it still chills speech. The intimidation is the point.
“Journalists have every right to cover protests and their aftermath, and when police disperse protestors, it does not mean they can disperse and arrest journalists doing their constitutionally protected jobs,” FPF's Seth Stern told Link nky.
