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Several families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting threatened legal action against NBC if it airs the interview with Alex Jones, who says the massacre may be a hoax.
Rolling Stone will pay $1.65 million to a Phi Kappa Psi fraternity chapter for erroneously reporting that University of Virginia students took part in a gang rape. The magazine retracted the 2014 article.
Rep.-elect Greg Gianforte will perform 40 hours of community service, take 20 hours of anger management classes, and pay a $385 fine after he pleaded guilty to assaulting a reporter the day before he was elected, He also will donate $50,000 to a nonprofit group promoting press freedom.
More than 120 media outlets have credentials to cover the Bill Cosby sex assault trial in suburban Norristown, Pa. Unlike the 1990s O.J. Simpson case, it is not the lead story in most media. Cosby’s defense will start to present its case today.
A reporter and other spectators were excluded from part of a hearing on a capital murder case. A federal court said “sensitive hearing material” was to be presented.
Temple University law Prof. Kathy Stanchi says the judge is trying “to avoid making the trial into some kind of prurient entertainment circus for the public.”
The network said a story saying that a murdered Democratic National Committee staffer, Seth Rich, had shared DNC emails with WikiLeaks did not meet Fox’ editorial standards.
Javier Valdez Cárdenas was assassinated yesterday by an armed group that shot him while he was driving in his home state of Sinaloa. Three journalists were slain in Mexico in March.
Jason Wambsgans of the Chicago Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for photographing children shot in the city. Photographers “wonder why they keep showing people this violence and nothing changes,” says photojournalism scholar James Kelly.
Reporter Dan Heyman is handcuffed and jailed for asking questions of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price in a hallway of the West Virginia State Capitol. He is charged with “willful disruption of state government processes.”