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Newspaper subpoenaed for reporter’s notes from jailhouse interview

Incident Details

Date of incident: March 3, 2023
Location: Bakersfield, California
Targets: The Bakersfield Californian

Legal orders →: subpoena for communications or work product

March 3, 2023: Pending

March 16, 2023: Objected to

April 4, 2023: Quashed
Legal order target →: Institution
Legal order venue →: State

Spectrum News 13 reporter killed, photographer shot while reporting

Incident Details

Updated on: January 28, 2025
Date of incident: February 22, 2023
Location: Pine Hills, Florida
Case number: 2025-CA-000699
Targets: Dylan Lyons (Spectrum News 13)
Case status: Ongoing
Type of case: Civil

Assailant →: Private individual
Was the journalist targeted? →: Unknown

Spectrum News 13 photographer shot while reporting; reporter killed

Incident Details

Updated on: March 30, 2023
Date of incident: February 22, 2023
Location: Pine Hills, Florida
Targets: Jesse Walden (Spectrum News 13)

Assailant →: Private individual
Was the journalist targeted? →: Unknown

Judge bars media from publishing on expelled student suing UNC system

Incident Details

Updated on: March 1, 2023
Date of incident: February 22, 2023
Location: Asheville, North Carolina
Targets: Media

Status of prior restraint →: Dropped
Mistakenly released materials? →: No

MinnPost reporter reinstated to press list after coalition backing

Incident Details

Date of incident: February 9, 2023
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Targets: Peter Callaghan (MinnPost)

Government agency or public official involved →: State government: Legislature
Type of denial →: Press credential or media list

Florida city officials enact media conduct rules, threaten to ban editor

Incident Details

Date of incident: February 9, 2023
Location: Winter Garden, Florida
Targets: Norine Dworkin (VoxPopuli), Media

Government agency or public official involved →: Local government: Legislature
Type of denial →: Change in policy or practice

NewsNation reporter arrested while covering Ohio governor news conference

Incident Details

Updated on: January 30, 2024
Date of incident: February 8, 2023
Location: East Palestine, Ohio
Case number: 4:23-cv-02200
Targets: Evan Lambert (NewsNation)
Case status: Dismissed
Type of case: Civil

Arrest status →: Arrested and released
Arresting authority →: East Palestine Police Department
Charges →: Trespassing: criminal trespass

Feb. 8, 2023: Charges pending

Feb. 15, 2023: Charges dropped

Obstruction: resisting arrest

Feb. 8, 2023: Charges pending

Feb. 15, 2023: Charges dropped
Unnecessary use of force? →: Yes

Assailant →: Law enforcement
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

Subpoena for NBC reporter to testify at murder trial quashed

Incident Details

Date of incident: February 7, 2023
Location: Binghamton, New York
Targets: Andrea Canning (NBC News)

Legal orders →: subpoena for other testimony

Feb. 7, 2023: Pending

March 10, 2023: Objected to

May 8, 2023: Upheld

June 5, 2023: Objected to

Sept. 14, 2023: Quashed
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: State

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