From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Independent photojournalist Nick Stern was pushed and struck in the face with a baton by police and his press credentials damaged while he was covering immigration protests in downtown LA on Aug. 8.
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
Photojournalist struck with baton, press credential damaged at LA protest
Independent photojournalist Nick Stern was pushed by police and then, after retrieving his damaged press credentials, struck in the face …
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The LAPD's brutal attack on independent journalists on Friday night is an attack on everyone's right to know. The LAPD must be held accountable.
Inquirer.com
In LA, police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death | Will Bunch
On Friday, LAPD cops allegedly battered and detained journalists at a protest — the ugliest of the many threats to U.S. press freedom.
“If journalists are not willing to report on the ongoing attacks against the free press, who will?” Award-winning investigative reporter Jessica McMaster reflects on Marion County Record raid two years later.
Freedom of the Press
A ‘massive failure’ in Kansas: Two years since the Marion County Record raid
Journalist Jessica McMaster looks back on her groundbreaking reporting on the raid
In a just world, there would be an investigation and accountability for Israel committing this horrific crime. But we all know that's not going to happen, unless and until governments stop using platitudes and actually put an end to this travesty at once.
Al Jazeera
Updates: Global outrage grows after Israel kills Al Jazeera staff in Gaza
Condemnation grows after targeted Israeli attack assassinates journalist Anas al-Sharif and several of his colleagues.
FCC's Brendan Carr has driven away from championing free speech
Chicago Sun-Times
FCC's Brendan Carr has driven away from championing free speech
It's clear that the principles Carr once defended during the Biden administration included unspoken political exceptions.
ICE isn’t just targeting immigrants — it’s targeting journalists reporting on them. From FCC investigations to courtroom harassment and threats of prosecution, press freedom is under attack. Watch FPF Senior Adviser ‪Caitlin Vogus‬ explain:
The good news: Tom Hayden’s public records-based citizen journalism made a real impact in his Evanston, Illinois,-community. The bad: The personal toll of being an unpaid reporter covering politically heated stories caused him to give it up.
Freedom of the Press
The rise and fall of FOIA Gras
Tom Hayden proved the power of citizen journalism, but ultimately the burdens were too much to bear.
“Everyone from U.S. senators to CBS employees to a dissenting FCC commissioner has said the settlement appears to have been a bribe to grease the wheels for Carr’s FCC to approve the merger,” we said in our ethics complaint against FCC chair Brendan Carr. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5425320-press-freedom-fcc-ethics-complaint/
We, represented by American Oversight, filed a FOIA suit against the DOJ for withholding a memo about the Trump admin’s acceptance of $400 million Qatari jet. “It shouldn’t take 620 days to release a single, time-sensitive document,” Lauren Harper said.
Freedom of the Press
FPF sues DOJ for Trump memo on Qatari jet
Freedom of the Press Foundation, represented by American Oversight, seeks memo reportedly used to justify foreign “gift” to Trump’s private f...
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