Marion County Record

by | 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...

Attack on Press Freedom

by | Aug 14, 2023 | First Amendment, Journalism, Journalists

AP reports: A small central Kansas police department is facing a torrent of criticism for raiding a local newspaper’s office and the home of its owner and publisher, seizing computers and cellphones, and, in the publisher’s view, stressing his 98-year-old mother...