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"title": "Rhode Island judge orders journalists not to contact jurors after trial",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/rhode-island-judge-orders-journalists-not-contact-jurors-after-trial/",
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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"7zrze\">On April 6, 2018, Rhode Island Superior Court Judge Netti C. Vogel ordered members of the press and public not to contact jurors in the case <i>State of Rhode Island v. Jorge DePina</i> after the trial was over. </p><p data-block-key=\"y203v\">“No one, no spectator, no one in the spectator section of the courtroom, is permitted to contact my jurors,” Judge Vogel said, according to a court transcript. “If the jurors choose to contact anyone, that’s up to them. This is for their protection. ... If you see them at Walmart, do not acknowledge that you know them. In other words, I don’t allow people to contact jurors. They must be left alone to go on with their lives.”</p><p data-block-key=\"qijkk\">Although no official injunction was entered on the docket, Providence Journal courts reporter Katie Mulvaney treated Judge Vogel’s statement as a court order and refrained from contacting jurors in the case. </p><p data-block-key=\"st0o5\">After the trial was over, Mulvaney — who had extensively covered the trial for the Journal — requested a list of the jurors from the court. Although the identities of jurors are supposed to be public information, Judge Vogel denied her request.</p><p data-block-key=\"fpmzg\">On April 25, the Journal <a href=\"http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20180430/journal-files-challenge-of-judges-order-not-to-contact-jurors\">filed</a> an <a href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4451285-Providence-Journal-s-emergency-motion-for-public.html\">emergency motion</a> with the Superior Court, seeking to overturn both Judge Vogel’s order not to contact jurors and her denial of Mulvaney’s request for the list of jurors.</p><p data-block-key=\"5ch3w\">A <a href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4451286-Providence-Journal-s-memorandum-of-law.html\">memorandum of law</a> filed in support of the Journal’s emergency motion argues that Judge Vogel’s order is unconstitutional and violates legal precedent:</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-blockquote\">\n\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote\" cite=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4451286-Providence-Journal-s-memorandum-of-law.html\">\n\t<div class=\"rich-text\"><p data-block-key=\"0nrre\">The news media’s constitutional and common law rights of access to judicial proceedings and records, and to report to the fullest extent possible on what transpires in the courtroom, is longstanding and crucial in criminal cases. See <i>Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia</i>, 448 U.S. 555, 575 (1980). The public has an interest in all aspects of criminal proceedings − including the selection and composition of the jury that decided the fate of the defendant in this high-profile prosecution. See <i>Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior Court</i>, 464 U.S. 501, 507-13 (1984) (“<i>Press-Enterprise I</i>”) (<i>voir dire</i> presumptively open to public); <i>United States v. Wecht</i>, 537 F.3d 222, 229-30 (3d Cir. 2008) (public has a constitutional right of contemporaneous access to names of empaneled jurors).</p><p data-block-key=\"ot1zx\">According to established constitutional and common law principles, criminal trials are not to be decided by anonymous persons, absent extraordinary circumstances. See <i>In re South Carolina Press Ass’n</i>, 946 F.2d 1037, 1041 (4th Cir. 1991) (First Amendment compels public disclosure of jury questionnaires); <i>People v. Flores</i>, 153 A.D.3d 182, 189 (N.Y. App. Div. 2d Dep’t 2017) (“Read together [N.Y. Crim. Proc. Law §§ 270.15(1)(a) and 270.15(1-a)] prohibit a trial court from withholding the names of prospective jurors.”). To the contrary, juror names and addresses are presumptively public and subject to a right of access under the First Amendment and common law.</p><p data-block-key=\"km64t\">...</p><p data-block-key=\"ra5tn\">Barring some compelling justification – articulated on the record – the press must be given the opportunity to exercise its First Amendment right to speak with the DePina jurors. Concomitantly, the DePina jurors must be permitted to exercise <i>their</i> First Amendment right to speak with the press if <i>they</i> so choose.</p></div>\n\t\n\t\t<cite class=\"blockquote__citation\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"blockquote__link text-link\" href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4451286-Providence-Journal-s-memorandum-of-law.html\">\n\t\t\t\t<p data-block-key=\"5drqw\">Journal's memorandum of law supporting emergency motion</p>\n\t\t\t</a>\n\t\t</cite>\n\t\n</blockquote>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"y041p\">A number of First Amendment organizations — including the New England First Amendment Coalition (a partner organization of the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker), the New England Newspaper and Press Association, and the Rhode Island ACLU — have <a href=\"http://nefac.org/news/rhode-island-judges-order-to-ban-post-trial-juror-contact-overbroad-poses-grave-concerns/\">indicated</a> to the court that <a href=\"http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20180502/aclu-press-group-criticize-judges-blocking-of-jurors\">they may intervene</a> in the case in support of the Journal's emergency motion.</p><p data-block-key=\"zwirv\">A hearing on the Journal’s motion is scheduled for May 14.</p></div>",
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"title": "Journalist Manuel Duran, arrested while covering immigration protest, could be deported by ICE",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/journalist-manuel-duran-arrested-while-covering-immigration-protest-could-be-deported-ice/",
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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"isfk5\">On April 3, 2018, journalist Manuel Duran was arrested while reporting on a protest in Memphis, Tennessee. Though all charges against him were later dropped, he was <a href=\"https://wreg.com/news/memphis-journalist-could-face-deportation-after-arrest-during-protest/\">placed into the custody</a> of <a href=\"https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2018/04/05/spanish-language-reporter-memphis-protest-charges-dropped/488304002/\">Immigration & Customs Enforcement</a> and <a href=\"https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2018/04/04/jailed-memphis-reporter-could-face-deportation-fight-15-activist-also-held/486467002/\">could be deported</a>.</p><p data-block-key=\"ji56s\">Duran, who is from El Salvador, runs Memphis Noticias, a local Spanish-language news website. He previously worked as a reporter for WGSF, a Spanish-language radio station in Memphis.</p><p data-block-key=\"nenyo\">On April 3, Duran covered a demonstration by immigration activists outside the Shelby Protest Criminal Justice Complex in Memphis. As he livestreamed the demonstration on Facebook Live, police arrested him and a number of the demonstrators. Duran and the demonstrators were charged with disorderly conduct and “obstruction of a highway or passageway.”</p><p data-block-key=\"ra2g7\">Police later <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/mpd1827/posts/1677271615686524\">said</a> that they arrested the group because they blocked traffic while slowly crossing the street.</p><p data-block-key=\"76zk5\">The Commercial Appeal, a daily newspaper in Memphis, reported that prosecutors agreed to drop all charges against Duran during a court hearing on April 5.</p><p data-block-key=\"gjwe4\">“This office has dismissed misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and obstruction of a highway or passageway filed Tuesday against Manuel Duran,” Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weinrich said in a statement to the Commercial Appeal. “There was not sufficient evidence to go forward with prosecution. This ends any legal issues Mr. Duran has with this office.”</p><p data-block-key=\"d10sx\">Latino Memphis, a group that advocated for Duran’s release, said in a tweet that ICE detained Duran immediately after the court hearing.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-raw_html\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Criminal charges for Manuel Duran have been dropped thanks to the work of Ann Schiller and our attorney Christy Swatzell. Unfortunately, ICE was waiting for him in the court room. He is currently with ICE. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/StopICE?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StopICE</a></p>— Latino Memphis (@LatinoMemphis) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/LatinoMemphis/status/981975298165133320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2018</a></blockquote>\r\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script></div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"crfa3\">Local TV station WREG reported that Duran was taken into federal custody on April 5.</p><p data-block-key=\"926x1\">An ICE spokesman did not respond to a request for comment from the Freedom of the Press Foundation.</p></div>",
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"title": "Journalist Ken Lovett arrested for talking on cellphone in New York State Senate lobby",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/journalist-ken-lovett-arrested-talking-cell-phone-new-york-state-senate-lobby/",
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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"mi8oh\">Ken Lovett, the Albany bureau chief for the New York Daily News, was arrested by State Police troopers in the lobby of the New York State Senate.</p><p data-block-key=\"kkvzd\">On March 28, 2018, Lovett was <a href=\"https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Daily-News-reporter-detained-by-State-Police-at-12788018.php\">handcuffed</a> by State Police troopers in the lobby of the Capitol building and taken to a nearby State Police substation for processing.</p><p data-block-key=\"phchz\">After <a href=\"http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/daily-news-ken-lovett-freed-lockup-gov-cuomo-article-1.3901667\">being released</a>, Lovett told the Freedom of the Press Foundation that he was talking on his cellphone when he was approached by a Senate sergeant-at-arms, who ordered him to turn off his phone. Lovett said that he refused, telling the sergeant that the Senate wasn't in session and he (and many others) routinely used their cellphones in the lobby.</p><p data-block-key=\"hqqoj\">Lovett said that the sergeant-at-arms escalated the situation, ordering him to leave the premises and then calling in State Police troopers, who also ordered him to leave the area. He said that he "stood his ground" and was then arrested and told that he could be charged with trespassing.</p><p data-block-key=\"lcyr2\">The Senate sergeant-at-arms refused to comment on the incident.</p><p data-block-key=\"a2wpq\">Nick Reisman, a reporter for Capital Tonight, spoke to eyewitnesses who said that Lovett was talking on his phone when he was approached by the Senate sergeant-at-arms and then arrested by State Police troopers.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Daily News’s Ken Lovett has been detained by State Police. One witness says it was for talking on a cellphone in the state Senate lobby. Bizarre and egregious. Never seen something like this. <a href=\"https://t.co/C284pPLZV1\">pic.twitter.com/C284pPLZV1</a></p>— Nick Reisman (@NickReisman) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/NickReisman/status/979036610644926464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2018</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"2hqzs\">A Senate spokesman confirmed that Lovett had been arrested for talking on a cellphone.</p><p data-block-key=\"fg75b\">“Earlier today a reporter was asked to comply with a rule prohibiting use of a cellphone in the Senate lobby,” the spokesman said in a statement. “He refused and the state police were notified. The incident escalated quickly and unfortunately he was detained by the State Police. We have formally requested that he be released and very much regret the incident.”</p><p data-block-key=\"ogxlz\">A State Police spokesman said in a statement to <a href=\"https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/28/cuomo-reporter-detained-new-york-capitol-489886\">Politico</a> that the officers who arrested Lovett were responding to a trespassing complaint:</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-blockquote\">\n\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote\" >\n\t<div class=\"rich-text\"><p data-block-key=\"hfmo1\">At approximately 1 p.m., State Police responded to the Senate lobby for a trespassing complaint. Upon arrival, Troopers learned that Ken Lovett had refused requests from the Senate Sergeant at Arms/Session to leave the Senate lobby. Lovett had been asked to leave by Senate security staff because he was using his cellphone in the lobby in violation of Senate rules. After Lovett also refused Troopers’ requests to leave the area, the Sergeant at Arms/Session indicated that he wanted to file a trespassing complaint. Lovett was taken into custody and transported to SP Capital. A short time later, the Sergeant at Arms notified State Police that the complaint was being withdrawn. Lovett was released and no charges were filed.</p></div>\n\t\n</blockquote>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"b5rrz\">Lovett said that after he was arrested and taken to the State Police substation, representatives of the Senate visited him to apologize for what happened and say that they would not press charges.</p><p data-block-key=\"7du12\">Later, New York governor Andrew Cuomo visited him.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cuomo has arrived to <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/freekenlovett?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#freekenlovett</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/rUNjmbwMdw\">pic.twitter.com/rUNjmbwMdw</a></p>— Dan Clark (@DanClarkReports) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/DanClarkReports/status/979046547290841088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2018</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"hipil\">A video recorded by Buffalo News reporter Dan Clark shows Cuomo entering the State Police substation and joking that he was “the court-appointed attorney for Ken Lovett.” Soon after Cuomo arrived, Lovett was released from custody.</p><p data-block-key=\"7zn6w\">In an impromptu press conference, the governor said that he does not expect any criminal charges will be filed against Lovett.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-video\">\n\n<figure class=\"inline-media left\">\n <div style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%;\" class=\"responsive-object\">\n <iframe width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/pfip0_IMhRs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n</div>\n\n \n <figcaption class=\"inline-media__caption\">\n \n <p data-block-key=\"9hb5n\">New York governor Andrew Cuomo hosts an impromptu press conference after Daily News reporter Ken Lovett is released from custody.</p>\n \n \n <p>Jimmy Vielkind/Politico New York</p>\n \n </figcaption>\n \n</figure>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"qx3zv\">“He’s not going to flee the jurisdiction,” Cuomo said, according to video of the press conference recorded by Politico’s Jimmy Vielkind. “We don’t believe any charges are going to be filed. Freedom of the press is alive and well in the city of Albany.”</p><p data-block-key=\"83ohg\">“Apparently, there was a disagreement between Ken Lovett and the sergeant-at-arms,” he added. “The Senate doesn’t want to press any charges."</p><p data-block-key=\"v1u0x\">Lovett later <a href=\"https://twitter.com/klnynews/status/979048103658606592\">tweeted</a> that the State Police troopers who arrested him were "very professional."</p><p data-block-key=\"fj0vv\">Sean Ewart, a staffer for a New York state legislator, told the Freedom of the Press Foundation that he was walking by the Senate lobby when he saw State Police troopers handcuffing Lovett. Ewart said that he has seen many arrests in the Capitol building — it's a common location for protest sit-ins — but this was the first time he had ever seen a journalist arrested there.</p><p data-block-key=\"87p4a\">Lovett, who has been in Albany for 24 years, also said that he had never heard of a journalist being arrested at the Capitol building before.</p><p data-block-key=\"pyr5o\">A few hours after he was released, Lovett wrote a <a href=\"http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/lovett-talking-phone-arrested-albany-article-1.3902185\">first-person account</a> of the arrest for the Daily News.</p><p data-block-key=\"8bcgw\">"I can’t say I was surprised someone was led away in handcuffs from the state Capitol on Wednesday afternoon," he wrote. "I just never thought it would be me — especially for the capital crime of talking on a cellphone."</p></div>",
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"title": "Former FBI agent Terry Albury accused of leaking documents to The Intercept",
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"title": "KGTV reporter attacked while filming in San Diego",
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"title": "Kentucky State Police spokesperson threatens media with denial of access",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/kentucky-state-police-threatens-news-organizations-publish-official-press-release-sent-out/",
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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"c5rj5\">On March 2, 2018, a Kentucky State Police Public Affairs Officer ordered radio station WRIL 106.3 FM and the Mountain Advocate newspaper to withhold publishing or airing any information on ongoing Kentucky State Police investigations until after the Kentucky State Police Public Affairs Office has issued an official statement.</p><p data-block-key=\"rsqdo\">KSP Trooper Shane Jacobs, who serves as public affairs officer for KSP Post 10, emailed the news organizations and threatened to cut off their press access if they did not comply.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-blockquote\">\n\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote\" cite=\"http://mountainadvocate.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/kpa_email_to_ksp_3-6-2018.pdf\">\n\t<div class=\"rich-text\"><p data-block-key=\"u8mte\">From this point forward when KSP is working an investigation, you are to wait until OUR (KSP) press release is sent out before putting anything out on social media, radio, and newspaper. No more posting inaccurate information from Sheriff’s or anyone else. I don’t care to confirm something and then get a release out later.</p><p data-block-key=\"agzo2\">Authority of my supervisors, if this continues, you will be taken off our media distribution list. Thanks Shane.</p></div>\n\t\n\t\t<cite class=\"blockquote__citation\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"blockquote__link text-link\" href=\"http://mountainadvocate.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/kpa_email_to_ksp_3-6-2018.pdf\">\n\t\t\t\t<p data-block-key=\"jcvor\">KSP email to Mountain Advocate and WRIL 106.3 FM</p>\n\t\t\t</a>\n\t\t</cite>\n\t\n</blockquote>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"x057r\">Representatives of both media organizations criticized the order. Editor Charles Myrick was both surprised and defiant.</p><p data-block-key=\"ic99w\">“This demand has totally blindsided us," Mountain Advocate editor Charles Myrick told the paper. "However, we will continue to do our job and keep the public informed, regardless of the agency or agencies involved."</p><p data-block-key=\"kz44p\">"The Kentucky State Police have a job to do and an obligation to the communities they cover and so do we," Brian O'Brien of WRIL 106.3 FM told local broadcaster LEX 18. "I believe that we both do our jobs to the best of our ability and are susceptible to open criticism from the public. At times that is also true from those we work with. I would hope that an open line of communication can continue with Kentucky State Police as well as any other law enforcement entity."</p><p data-block-key=\"8si0k\">On March 6, Kentucky Press Association executive director David Thompson sent a letter to the Kentucky State Police criticizing the order. The letter was addressed to both KSP commissioner Richard Sanders and to KSP lieutenant Michael Webb, who is in charge of the KSP Public Affairs Office.</p><p data-block-key=\"vpozz\">“It is not acceptable that anyone, a member of the public, a public agency, and including the Kentucky State Police, to tell the media it is not to publish (or perhaps, air) any information until or after a release is sent from KSP," Thompson wrote in the letter. "This is nothing less than an unconstitutional and illegal attempt to restrict access to KSP information because a media outlet has published information that has displease[d] the state police.”</p><p data-block-key=\"e35la\">“A state police officer simply has no authority to order the news media not to publish," he wrote. "To do so raises serious First Amendment and other legal issues and the officer’s threat is not acceptable.”</p><p data-block-key=\"dtzb9\">On March 8, KSP captain Ryan Catron — the commander of KSP Post 10 and Jacobs' superior officer — spoke to t<a href=\"http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article204104264.html\">he Lexington Herald Leader</a> about the controversial order.</p><p data-block-key=\"pi7qc\">“We want to work with all media outlets. … We’re not trying to withhold any information from them," he told the Lexington Herald Leader. "We’re asking that they wait until they get our press releases before they put anything out.”</p><p data-block-key=\"9szn9\">When asked whether news organizations that disobeyed the order would be removed from KSP media distribution lists, Catron declined to comment, stating that he refused to “speculate on what would happen in the future.” </p><p data-block-key=\"555b1\">On March 12, Dan Shelley — the executive director of the Radio Television Digital News Association (which is a partner of the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker) — <a href=\"https://www.wcpo.com/news/state/state-kentucky/group-calls-on-kentucky-state-police-to-rescind-unconstitutional-order\">sent</a> a letter to KSP commissioner Sanders, asking him to overturn the order.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-blockquote\">\n\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote\" cite=\"http://mountainadvocate.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ksp_original_email_3-2-2018.pdf\">\n\t<div class=\"rich-text\"><p data-block-key=\"vr6rl\">I respectfully submit, Commissioner Sanders, that such an order is, on its face, in direct contravention of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. …</p><p data-block-key=\"5v8q4\">I, on behalf of the broadcast and digital journalists RTDNA represents, insist that you rescind this new policy forthwith. Any time the efforts of journalists are restricted it is not those journalists who are the victims. Rather, it is the public – in this case the citizens of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, whom you are sworn to protect and serve – that becomes the victim because it is being denied information to which it is constitutionally entitled.</p></div>\n\t\n\t\t<cite class=\"blockquote__citation\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"blockquote__link text-link\" href=\"http://mountainadvocate.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ksp_original_email_3-2-2018.pdf\">\n\t\t\t\t<p data-block-key=\"giji1\">RTDNA letter to KSP</p>\n\t\t\t</a>\n\t\t</cite>\n\t\n</blockquote>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"7w9kz\">The next day, KSP Sergeant Josh Lawson told the Freedom of the Press Foundation that the controversy over the order had been resolved. Lawson, the public affairs officer for KSP Post 5, said that he had spoken with the Kentucky Press Association to dispel any confusion over the order.</p><p data-block-key=\"ui6er\">“I have spoken with Mr. Thompson with the Kentucky Press Association and I encourage you to speak with him as this entire misunderstanding was explained," he said.</p><p data-block-key=\"0asq7\">In a statement to the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Mountain Advocate publisher Jay Nolan said that Michael Webb (the KSP lieutenant in charge of the department's public affairs office) had personally called Mountain Advocate editor Charles Myrick to apologize for the confusion over the order.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-blockquote\">\n\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote\" >\n\t<div class=\"rich-text\"><p data-block-key=\"x5h47\">Our editor, Charles Myrick, did get a telephone call from the KSP State headquarters. Specifically, the officer in charge of the Public Affairs Officers statewide. He called the Email a “regrettable” choice of words. He suggested that officer Jacobs should have come in person to express his concerns with us, and also explained we would not be removed from any notification list. He indicated that the KSP wanted to continue to maintain positive relations with us and all the media.</p><p data-block-key=\"cjhfb\">Based on the tone and content of his call, we consider this matter closed. The Mountain Advocate will continue to report the news as we have for over 110 years, and welcome the support of the KSP as we seek to keep our community informed.</p></div>\n\t\n</blockquote>\n</div>",
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"title": "Virginian-Pilot reporter subpoenaed to testify in councilman's forgery trial",
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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"3g4gj\">Virginian-Pilot reporter Scott Daugherty was subpoenaed on March 1, 2018 to testify in the trial of Mark Whitaker, a councilman for the city of Portsmouth, Virginia. The trial was later <a href=\"https://www.pilotonline.com/2018/03/20/portsmouth-councilman-mark-whitakers-fraud-trial-postponed-until-july/\">postponed</a> until July, freeing Daugherty from the initial subpoena to testify. However, it is possible that the prosecutor could attempt to subpoena him again.</p><p data-block-key=\"b889h\">The subpoena ordered Daugherty to appear and testify in Circuit Court for the City of Portsmouth between March 21 and March 23. Daugherty told Freedom of the Press foundation that he thinks he could have been required to be present in court all three days, but more likely, he would have been told to return close to the specific time when he would have been needed. </p><p data-block-key=\"kkju6\">On March 20, Daugherty’s attorney Conrad Shumadine filed a <a href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4442778-Motion-to-Quash-Subpoena-of-Scott-Daugherty.html\">motion to quash</a> the subpoena.</p><p data-block-key=\"adz2p\">“The trial subpoena issued to Mr. Daugherty raises serious First Amendment issues,” the motion to quash states. “The Virginian-Pilot and Mr. Daugherty respectfully assert that a prosecutor must have some factual basis to subpoena a reporter for testimony and there has to be some reasonable expectancy that the reporter would be called as a witness.” </p><p data-block-key=\"zhnte\">Portsmouth Councilman Mark Whitaker was charged with 20 felonies, including identity fraud and forgery, in April 2017. At that time, the Virginian-Pilot <a href=\"https://www.pilotonline.com/2017/04/20/portsmouth-councilman-mark-whitaker-indicted-on-id-fraud-forgery-charges/\">reported</a> that Whitaker and his attorneys claimed that the case was biased or politically motivated. </p><p data-block-key=\"yiho1\">In October 2017, Scott Daugherty wrote <a href=\"https://www.pilotonline.com/2017/10/31/2-of-portsmouth-councilman-mark-whitakers-alleged-forgery-victims-say-he-did-nothing-wrong/\">an article</a> for the Virginian-Pilot about the fact that two of Mark Whitaker’s alleged fraud victims claimed he did nothing wrong. For the piece, he interviewed Mark Whitaker.</p><p data-block-key=\"i2wph\">“I'm not really sure what the special prosecutor wanted to ask me, except it probably had to do with that one story,” Daugherty told Freedom of the Press Foundation. “Quite frankly, this isn't a case where I'd really expect the prosecution to want to ask me any questions on the stand. The councilman has never said anything to me indicating he is guilty. To the contrary, he has been pretty adamant from the beginning that this case is politically motivated and that he will be vindicated.”</p><p data-block-key=\"udidd\">Commonwealth Attorney Andrew Robbins declined to discuss what questions he intended to ask Daugherty or confirm that he would refrain from asking about unpublished information.</p><p data-block-key=\"vwekp\">In a March 20 <a href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4442777-Affidavits-of-Scott-Daugherty-and-Jeff-Reece.html\">affidavit</a>, Daugherty wrote, “If Mark Whitaker had provided me with any information suggesting or tending to the effect that he was guilty of the offenses, I would have included it in the article I wrote about the interview since any such admission would have been highly newsworthy.” </p><p data-block-key=\"a9owj\">On March 20, the prosecution and defense agreed to postpone Whitaker’s fraud trial until July so that a discovery order could be entered and a hearing on an unspecified motion scheduled. </p><p data-block-key=\"arvnr\">“At the moment, I am not under subpoena,” Daugherty said on March 30. “I believe the special prosecutor will have to subpoena me again if he wants me to testify during [the] new trial.” </p><p data-block-key=\"cobys\">When asked if he intends to subpoena Daugherty again to testify in Whitaker’s trial in July, Commonwealth Attorney Andrew Robbins said it would depend on how the evidence progresses between now and then. </p><p data-block-key=\"eok56\">“Anyone, reporter or anyone else, who takes a statement from a criminal defendant risks being called as a witness,” he told Freedom of the Press Foundation. </p><p data-block-key=\"ywe6n\">Although Daugherty has extensively covered the case since Whitaker was first indicted in April 2017, he would not have been able to report on the trial if the subpoena had proceeded.</p><p data-block-key=\"nhohw\">"It would have prevented me from covering the trial, both ethically and physically," he said. 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"title": "State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert refuses question from Russian TV reporter",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/state-department-spokeswoman-heather-nauert-refuses-question-russian-tv-reporter/",
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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"tdsdq\">On March 1, 2018, at a U.S. State Department Press Briefing, spokesperson Heather Nauert refused to take a question from a reporter after learning the reporter worked for Channel One in Russia.</p><p data-block-key=\"wvzjb\">The press briefing followed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual state of the nation address, in which President Putin <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/01/europe/putin-nuclear-missile-video-florida/index.html\">shared a video</a> touting Russia’s new nuclear weapons capabilities. The video included an animation showing the launch of nuclear missiles. One of the missiles is shown flying over a piece of land resembling the outline of Florida.</p><p data-block-key=\"zema9\">Nauert was asked about the video at the press briefing.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-video\">\n\n<figure class=\"inline-media full-width\">\n <div style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%;\" class=\"responsive-object\">\n <iframe width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/I9-Ked09Fus?start=1300&feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n</div>\n\n \n <figcaption class=\"inline-media__caption\">\n \n <p data-block-key=\"y2lzj\">U.S. State Department Press Briefing - March 1, 2018</p>\n \n \n <p>U.S. State Department</p>\n \n </figcaption>\n \n</figure>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"cu846\">At the press briefing, Russia 1 TV journalist Alexander Khristenko asked Nauert how Putin’s address could affect the United States’ attitude toward U.S.-Russian relations.</p><p data-block-key=\"6s0r5\">“Well, look, it’s certainly concerning to see your government, to see your country, put together that kind of video that shows the Russian Government attacking the United States,” she said.</p><p data-block-key=\"k5sa1\">That prompted a reporter from Channel One — a Russian TV network unrelated to Russia 1 TV — to ask why Nauert believed that the video showed the two missiles hitting the United States. Before the Channel One reporter could finish asking her question, Nauert interrupted her, dismissed her as being “from Russian TV” and <a href=\"https://www.rt.com/usa/420246-state-department-russia-media-nauert/\">refused to answer</a> her question.</p><p data-block-key=\"49yz5\">Other journalists in the room objected to Nauert’s treatment of the Channel One reporter.</p><p data-block-key=\"lpyal\">“They’re not officials of the Russian government,” a CNN reporter said. “They're just asking a question about Russia.”</p><p data-block-key=\"mornr\">Nauert then said that Russian news organizations are funded and directed by the Russian government, with the implication being that Russian journalists are agents of the Russian government who lack editorial independence.</p><p data-block-key=\"u1g48\">The State Department did not immediately return a request for comment. </p><p data-block-key=\"76o2n\">Read the full transcript of the exchange below:</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-blockquote\">\n\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote\" cite=\"https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2018/03/278982.htm\">\n\t<div class=\"rich-text\"><p data-block-key=\"gpmvs\">QUESTION: Alexander Khristenko, Russian TV. Are you still considering negotiations with Russia on global security issues and nuclear arms issues after today’s announcement?</p><p data-block-key=\"53va2\">MS NAUERT: Would – are – so your question is would we cut off conversations and negotiations?</p><p data-block-key=\"iple1\">QUESTION: I mean do you change something in your attitude toward this?</p><p data-block-key=\"gls89\">MS NAUERT: Well, look, it’s certainly concerning to see your government, to see your country, put together that kind of video that shows the Russian Government attacking the United States. That’s certainly a concern of ours. I don’t think that that’s very constructive, nor is it responsible. I’ll leave it at that. Okay?</p><p data-block-key=\"5bgxo\">QUESTION: It was not attacking the United States. It was not attacking the United States. It was two missiles sent to different directions. 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Follow back if it's OK to DM</p>— Alex Harris (@harrisalexc) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/harrisalexc/status/963902245170503680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2018</a></blockquote>\r\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script></div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"ltwk4\">In response, a number of random Twitter users criticized Harris for doing her job. 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I did not ask if the shooter was white nor ask for photos of dead bodies.</p>— Alex Harris (@harrisalexc) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/harrisalexc/status/963984304333295616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2018</a></blockquote>\r\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script></div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"w252u\">Harris <a href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/doctored-reporter-tweets\">told BuzzFeed News</a> that the fake tweets likely made people less willing to talk to her, preventing her from doing her job.</p><p data-block-key=\"aoca2\">“Someone offered a victim $30 to talk to the competition and asked for people to send them money so they could offer more,” she told BuzzFeed News. “People kept saying, ‘Don’t talk to her, she’s racist,’ and it just kept getting worse.”</p><p data-block-key=\"0g7j1\">She <a href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/27/589279395/miami-herald-journalist-explains-how-a-hoax-tweet-affected-her-reporting-on-shoo\">told NPR</a> that she tried to get Twitter to remove screenshots of the fake tweets, to no avail.</p><p data-block-key=\"bsetg\">“I reported every tweet where someone sent me the screenshot,” she said. “I reported them for abuse, for harassment, from impersonation. 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