EXCLUSIVE: Unmasking the NRA’s Inner Circle
The current head of the Nominating Committee, Patricia A. Clark, lives in Newtown, just a couple of miles from the school where 20 young children and six adults were massacred.
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In U.S., Dangerous Misconceptions from TSA Poster
/in The Comittee to Protect Journalists/by Frank Smyth“It is one thing for DHS to act when there is probable cause; it is quite another to abuse that discretion to chill free speech.”
Jammeh ‘Award’ Coverage Reflects Chill in Gambian Press
/in The Comittee to Protect Journalists/by Frank SmythPresident Yahyah Jammeh, the former despot of Gambia, claimed to win four awards in the U.S. Only one, a satirical, land-locked Nebraska “admiralship” was real.
Hollman Morris, Labeled ‘Terrorist,’ Finally Harvard-bound
/in The Comittee to Protect Journalists/by Frank SmythThe Colombian journalist, Hollman Morris, had his request for a U.S. visa to study at Harvard as a prestigious Nieman Fellow denied on grounds relating to alleged terrorist activities as defined by the U.S. Patriot Act.
Global Media Forum Cites Risks of Environmental Reporting
/in The Comittee to Protect Journalists/by Frank SmythEnvironmental journalists in nations from around the world face being silenced whether through being censored or jailed, attacked or murdered outright, or through various forms of harassment.
‘Crude’ Filmmaker’s Raw Footage Subject to Subpoena
/in The Comittee to Protect Journalists/by Frank SmythA filmmaker’s raw footage is much like a photographer’s unedited images or a reporter’s notebooks—a private record of their reporting that is rarely disclosed to others. That is until a federal judge ruled otherwise.
FOIA Needs New Muscle Behind It, Not Just Promises
/in The Comittee to Protect Journalists/by Frank SmythWikiLeaks posted a classified U.S. military video showing U.S. forces firing on Iraqi civilians, killing two Reuters journalists as well as wounding children.