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Harvard Crimson reporter subpoenaed for reporting materials, testimony in defamation suit

Incident Details

Updated on: May 14, 2019
Date of incident: April 10, 2019
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Targets: Shera Avi-Yonah (The Harvard Crimson)

Legal orders →: subpoena for other testimony

April 10, 2019: Pending

April 19, 2019: Objected to

May 14, 2019: Ignored

subpoena for communications or work product

April 10, 2019: Pending

April 19, 2019: Objected to

May 14, 2019: Ignored
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: State

UMass-Boston student newspaper editor sued for defamation, emotional distress

Incident Details

Updated on: December 31, 2019
Date of incident: September 17, 2018
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Targets: Cady Vishniac (The [University of Massachusetts] Mass Media)

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Man arrested after threatening to shoot and kill Boston Globe staffers

Incident Details

Updated on: October 2, 2019
Date of incident: August 30, 2018
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Targets: The Boston Globe

Other Incident

Bill Murray accosts freelance photographer Peter Simon in Martha’s Vineyard restaurant

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 8, 2018
Location: Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
Targets: Peter Simon (The Martha’s Vineyard Times)

Assailant →: Public figure
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

Massachusetts reporter arrested for threatening Walpole Times reporter

Incident Details

Updated on: October 1, 2019
Date of incident: July 6, 2018
Location: Walpole, Massachusetts
Targets: Unidentified reporter 3 (GateHouse Media)

Other Incident

Photojournalist stopped second time by CBP in less than a year

Incident Details

Date of incident: October 25, 2017
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Targets: David Degner (Freelance)

Border point →: Boston Logan International Airport
Target nationality →: United States
US citizenship status of target →: U.S. citizen
Denied entry? →: No
Stopped previously? →: Yes
Asked for device access? →: No
Asked intrusive questions about work? →: Unknown