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The Department of Homeland Security gave law enforcement agencies reports summarizing tweets by three journalists who had published leaked documents about DHS operations in Oregon. The agency’s former lawyer called the action “incredibly dumb.”
Journalists and legal observers have suffered shots to the back, neck and legs from impact munitions fired by federal officers outside the federal courthouse in the last month.
Incomplete accounts by police of high-profile incidents in Georgia, Minnesota, Kentucky and elsewhere are making reporters reluctant to rely entirely on law enforcement.
Despite indictments, Russian saboteurs–some linked to the Russian military–have targeted millions of employees of major U.S. firms in a new escalation of East-West cyberwarfare. Chinese and North Korean hackers are also becoming a distributor of “weaponized” social media, according to security experts.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel was one of several media organizations winning Society of Professional Journalism awards for coverage of criminal justice issues.
A group of academics has criticized the Pulitzer Prize awarded the Louisville Courier-Journal for its examination of pardons issued by departing Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, calling it an example of how the media’s portrayal “has helped create our mass incarceration crisis.” The letter displayed a fundamental misunderstanding of the news media’s role, says TCR’s Washington bureau chief.
The reality television show “Live PD” will not produce new programs after it was reported that a crew from the series was filming when Javier Ambler died in Texas while he was being arrested by sheriff’s deputies.
After 33 seasons on the air, “Cops is not on the Paramount Network and we don’t have any current or future plans for it to return,” said a spokesperson for the cable channel.
In one of the latest episodes of aggression against the news media, New York City police officers confronted journalists as they filmed police ordering protesters to leave an area in lower Manhattan.
Reporters are being subjected to violence, harassment, and arrest in unprecedented numbers as they cover protests in over 100 cities across America, sparked by outrage over the killing of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis.