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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

January: Journalists harassed, threatened while reporting from DC riot and across the country

Incident Details

Updated On: September 9, 2022
Date of Incident: January 6, 2021
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: Media

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Utah Senate becomes third state legislature this year to limit journalists’ access

Incident Details

Updated On: February 28, 2022
Date of Incident: February 15, 2022
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Targets: Media

Government agency or public official involved →: Utah State Sen. Mike McKell

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

President Trump tells supporters that journalists 'don't like our country'

Incident Details

Date of Incident: August 22, 2017
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Targets: Media

Other Incident

Trump vows to take a 'strong look' at libel laws

Incident Details

Date of Incident: January 10, 2018
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: Media

Other Incident

More than two dozen newsrooms receive hoax bomb threats

Incident Details

Date of Incident: December 13, 2018
Location: Multiple
Targets: Media

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Amid backlash, Department of Defense backs away from new press regulations at Guantánamo Bay

Incident Details

Date of Incident: August 28, 2019
Location: Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
Targets: Media

Government agency or public official involved →: Department of Defense

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