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2 weeks ago | 
cpj.org | Katherine Jacobsen
As protests over U.S. immigration enforcement raids began throughout the country last week, journalists rushed to cover the rapidly evolving story. Focus turned to Los Angeles, California, as President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard and Marines, notably without California Governor Gavin Newsom’s consent. Journalists on the ground in LA quickly became part of the story as they faced an onslaught of tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and other forms of “less lethal” munitions.
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1 month ago | 
editorandpublisher.com | Katherine Jacobsen
The first 100 days of the Trump administration have been marked by a flurry of executive actions that have created a chilling effect and have the potential to curtail media freedoms. These measures threaten the availability of independent, fact-based news for vast swaths of America’s population.
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1 month ago | 
cpj.org | Katherine Jacobsen
The first 100 days of the Trump administration have been marked by a flurry of executive actions that have created a chilling effect and have the potential to curtail media freedoms. These measures threaten the availability of independent, fact-based news for vast swaths of America’s population.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Katherine Jacobsen
Special Report Posted Friday, October 4, 2024 10:00 am Journalists are bracing for the outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
cpj.org | Katherine Jacobsen
Journalists are bracing for the outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. CPJ’s research ahead of the November vote finds that the hostile media climate fostered during Donald Trump’s presidency has continued to fester, with members of the press confronting challenges – including violence, lawsuits, online harassment, and police attacks – that could shape the global media environment for decades. A special report by Katherine Jacobsen.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
ijnet.org | Katherine Jacobsen
With less than four months before voters in the U.S. decide on their next president, Americans as it stands now have a familiar choice in front of them - with much at stake. The Republican and Democratic national conventions, held in mid-July and mid-August, respectively, loom large as the election season's next major events.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
cpj.org | Sarah Spicer |Katherine Jacobsen
Por Katherine JacobsenLos ataques comenzaron el día que Christian Ulate pasó a representar al encarcelado periodista guatemalteco José Rubén Zamora: tuits que acusaban al abogado de izquierdista o cuestionaban sus credenciales jurídicas. El abogado temía que lo estuvieran vigilando.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
cpj.org | Katherine Jacobsen
The smears began the day Christian Ulate began representing jailed Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora: tweets accusing the lawyer of being a leftist or questioning his legal credentials. He began to fear he was being surveilled. Ulate had taken over the case in August 2022 from two other lawyers, Romeo Montoya García and Mario Castañeda, after the prosecutor in Zamora’s case announced that they were under investigation.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
cpj.org | Arlene Getz |Katherine Jacobsen
MARION, Kansas, August 17, 2023—At midday Wednesday, television crews were setting up for live broadcasts outside the Marion County Record; phones were ringing off the hook; and the paper’s owner, Eric Meyer was on a carousel of interviews about the police raid on their offices five days earlier. In the backroom, surrounded by old typesetting and a long defunct printing press, it was relatively calm and orderly.
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Aug 14, 2023 | 
cpj.org | Katherine Jacobsen |Arlene Getz
A police raid on a small-town Kansas newspaper, the Marion County Record, has sent shockwaves through the local community and raised national alarm among press freedom and civil rights groups about its potential to undermine press freedom in the United States.
