by jpitney | Feb 24, 2023 | Florida, Journalism, Journalists
The shooting death of Orlando TV reporter Dylan Lyons is part of a pattern. At NYT, Michael Levenson and Christine Chung report: The news of his death on the job punctuated a “new and alarming” increase in threats, harassment, and violence against local reporters in...
by jpitney | Feb 23, 2023 | Crime, Journalism, Journalists
David Harris, Amanda Rabines and Jeff Weiner at the Orlando Sentinel: An Orlando TV journalist and a child were shot and killed on Wednesday evening near a crime scene where a woman was found shot to death earlier in the day, in a brutal spate of violence in Pine...
by jpitney | Feb 17, 2023 | Journalism, Journalists
From Forbidden Stories: As states increasingly rely on disinformation-for-hire services and mercenaries proliferate, journalists face deadly consequences. One in four journalists killed in non-conflict zones between 2017 and 2022, was the target of disinformation...
by jpitney | Dec 17, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists
by jpitney | Dec 10, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists, Mexico, Ukraine
From the International Federation of Journalists: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today renewed its call on the international community for concrete action to protect the safety and freedoms of journalists as it recorded a spike in the numbers of...
