by jpitney | Mar 12, 2025 | Dreier, Freedom of Press, Journalism, Journalists
Minhal Nazeer at The Georgetown Voice: President Trump’s recent attempts to exert greater control over the press come as planning continues for D.C.’s Fallen Journalists Memorial, the design for which was first unveiled by the Fallen Journalists Memorial...
by jpitney | Apr 26, 2024 | Dreier, Freedom of Press, Journalism, Journalists, Presidency
From the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation: The Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation today announced the formation of a White House Press Secretaries Committee in support of the Fallen Journalists Memorial. The committee, which is co-chaired by former White...
by jpitney | Aug 20, 2023 | Freedom of Press, Journalism, Journalists
From the Committee to Protect Journalists At midday Wednesday, television crews were setting up for live broadcasts outside the Marion County Record’s office in Marion, Kansas; phones were ringing off the hook; and the paper’s owner, Eric Meyer was on a carousel of...
by jpitney | May 4, 2022 | Freedom of Press, Journalism, Journalists
Yesterday was World Press Freedom Day. Sirwan Kajjo at VOA: As the world marks World Press Freedom Day on May 3, leaders and international organizations are stressing the importance of protecting journalists, who increasingly face threats around the world. This...
by jpitney | Apr 15, 2022 | Bureaucracy, Freedom of Press, Journalism, Journalists
John F. Harris at Politico writes about Helena Bottemiller Evich (CMC `09): From the war in Ukraine to the fallout of the Jan. 6 riots, contemporary politics is animated by a large question: Do free societies have a future in an age of tribalism, contempt,...
by jpitney | Jan 23, 2022 | Freedom of Press, Journalism, Journalists, Violence
Jennifer Dunham at The Committee to Protect Journalists: At least 27 journalists were killed due to their work in 2021, with India and Mexico topping the list of countries with the most media worker deaths, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists’ final data...
