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White House suspends correspondent’s press pass, reporter alleges retaliation

Incident Details

Updated On: May 10, 2022
Date of Incident: August 5, 2019
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Case number: 1:19-cv-02514
Targets: Brian Karem (Playboy)
Case Status: Settled
Type of case: Civil

Government agency or public official involved →: White House Press Secretary

Wisconsin think tank sues governor for leaving its news service off media advisory list

Incident Details

Updated On: December 10, 2021
Date of Incident: August 6, 2019
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Case number: 3:19-cv-00649
Targets: MacIver Institute for Public Policy, MacIver News Service
Case Status: Dismissed
Type of case: Civil

Government agency or public official involved →: Gov. Tony Evers

Journalists barred from asylum hearings held in tent courts at border

Incident Details

Updated On: December 29, 2019
Date of Incident: September 11, 2019
Location: Laredo, Texas
Targets: Media

Government agency or public official involved →: Department of Homeland Security

Trump stops regular press briefings, citing unfair media treatment

Incident Details

Updated On: April 23, 2019
Date of Incident: January 23, 2019
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: White House Correspondent's Association

Government agency or public official involved →: Donald Trump

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

White House bars four print reporters from covering dinner between U.S., North Korea leaders

Incident Details

Date of Incident: February 27, 2019
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
Targets: Justin Sink, Eli Stokols, Jonathan Lemire, Jeff Mason

Government agency or public official involved →: Donald Trump

Department of State bars press pool from briefing call, allowing only “faith-based media”

Incident Details

Date of Incident: March 18, 2019
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: CNN, Press Corps

Government agency or public official involved →: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

U.S. State Department

Judge limits media access to evidence in Minnesota police shooting trial

Incident Details

Date of Incident: March 29, 2019
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Targets: Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minnesota Public Radio

Government agency or public official involved →: Judge Kathryn L. Quaintance

Tennessee Highway Patrol blocks reporters from covering protest, threaten with arrest

Incident Details

Date of Incident: April 16, 2019
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Targets: Joel Ebert (The Tennessean), Kyle Horan (WTVF NewsChannel 5), Natalie Allison (The Tennessean), Sergio Martínez-Beltrán (Nashville Public Radio)

Government agency or public official involved →: State Troopers

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