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"title": "Boston Globe editor subpoenaed for testimony in Harvard admissions bribery case",
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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"h6viq\">Boston Globe journalist Joshua Miller was subpoenaed for testimony as part of a Harvard University admissions scandal criminal case in Boston, Massachusetts, on Oct. 11, 2022.</p><p data-block-key=\"2v6c8\">In April 2019, Miller, now the Globe’s politics editor, broke the story of<a href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/04/bought-fencing-coach-house-then-his-son-got-into-harvard/EIWVMIxUFQ1XweY1xfB1GK/story.html?event=event12&p1=Article_Inline_Text_Link\"> bribes allegedly paid to Harvard’s fencing coach</a>, Peter Brand, by Maryland businessman Jie Zhao. According to the Globe, Zhao purchased Brand’s house at nearly twice its value. In return, Brand allegedly helped facilitate Harvard admission for Zhao’s two sons by recruiting them to the university’s fencing team.</p><p data-block-key=\"duacu\">Two months after the Globe published the story, the Department of Justice <a href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/06/18/bought-fencing-coach-house-then-his-son-got-into-harvard-now-feds-are-asking-questions/SefCGoT7IswTCfA8CrHqRJ/story.html?p1=Article_Inline_Text_Link\">launched a grand jury inquiry</a>. Brand and Zhao were <a href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/former-harvard-fencing-coach-and-maryland-businessman-indicted-bribery-charges\">formally indicted</a> on federal bribery charges in 2020.</p><p data-block-key=\"d9ir\">Globe legal counsel Jonathan M. Albano <a href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/04/metro/globe-challenges-subpoena-reporters-work-harvard-admissions-scandal/\">challenged the 2022 subpoena</a> for Miller’s testimony in a Nov. 3 motion to quash, arguing that it’s not vital to the government’s case.</p><p data-block-key=\"b16sk\">Albano requested that the judge instead issue a protective order for an in-camera review of Miller's recorded interview with Zhao. In a written declaration submitted to the court, Miller stated that testifying would force him to disclose confidential sources he felt “duty-bound to protect” and could have a negative impact on future reporting.</p><p data-block-key=\"gedd\">“I believe this will inhibit sources from speaking to me in the future because they will not trust that our conversations will exclusively be used for news reporting,” Miller stated. “I believe they will speak less frankly to me, or not speak to me at all, since they may fear that what they tell me will become something I will later testify about in criminal or civil litigation.”</p><p data-block-key=\"545vb\">Neither Miller nor Albano responded to requests for comment from the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.</p><p data-block-key=\"c8cmb\">On Nov. 8, the DOJ filed an opposition to the motion to quash, claiming only Miller can provide first-hand knowledge of Zhao’s statements to him. The federal bribery trial is scheduled to begin Dec. 5.</p></div>",
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"title": "KC photographer shoved to ground by NFL player after game",
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"title": "Jewish newspaper boxes vandalized in Queens",
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El reclamo principal de la protesta es la cancelación del contrato con la compañía de servicio energético. <a href=\"https://t.co/vPMrYMHng4\">pic.twitter.com/vPMrYMHng4</a></p>— Pulso Estudiantil (@PulsoEST) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/PulsoEST/status/1562924017463562243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2022</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"828f1\">“I was standing with all the other photojournalists and reporters when the police officers arrested a couple of protesters,” Berrios said. “That’s when one police officer released pepper spray into the crowd.”</p><p data-block-key=\"99qje\">Berrios told the Tracker he saw independent journalist Carlos Edill Berríos Polanco get hit directly with the irritant, an <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/independent-journalist-pepper-sprayed-covering-protests-in-puerto-rico/\">incident the Tracker documented here</a>. The spray covered Berrios’ camera lens and the front of his T-shirt.</p><p data-block-key=\"7hiu7\">Police officers then ordered the crowd to disperse, Berrios said, and he followed the protesters away from the barricade. 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"title": "Independent journalist pepper-sprayed covering protests in Puerto Rico",
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"title": "NotiCel photojournalist assaulted by police while covering protests in Puerto Rico",
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A scuffle ensued, he said, when some individuals began pushing the barrier and throwing water bottles and rocks at the police.</p><p data-block-key=\"6jpci\">Costa said one police officer responded by spraying the crowd and a group of reporters with pepper spray. Independent journalist Carlos Edill Berríos Polanco, who was in the group, told the Tracker he was <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/independent-journalist-pepper-sprayed-covering-protests-in-puerto-rico/\">targeted and directly hit with the spray</a>. Costa’s camera was covered in the chemical irritant.</p><p data-block-key=\"f52it\">Shortly after, Costa was recording as police officers ordered the crowd to disperse. An officer told him to leave the area, but after he identified himself as a journalist, that officer allowed him to stay. Immediately afterward, two other police officers ordered him to move.</p><p data-block-key=\"7moqv\">“I again identified myself as press,” Costa said. “I have credentials, and obviously, I'm carrying two professional cameras.”</p><p data-block-key=\"49j0j\">One officer suddenly hit the photojournalist in the lower abdomen with his police baton, Costa said, then forcefully pushed him back, causing him to fall.</p><p data-block-key=\"53uru\">“I cannot stand up because of my equipment, and while I’m trying to get up, the same police officer keeps telling me, pointing his finger in my face, that I need to move. I tell him that I cannot move and ask him to please help me up,” Costa said.</p><p data-block-key=\"2qio2\">Costa, who recorded his assault, said the officer helped him up but started hitting him and pushing him toward a line of officers as he tried to leave.</p><p data-block-key=\"bp46l\">Costa’s video of the assault spread widely, with one journalist posting the footage on Twitter, writing, “This is what police brutality against the press looks like.”</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is what police brutality against the press looks like. In solidarity with my friend and Puerto Rican photojournalist <a href=\"https://twitter.com/NotiJuan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NotiJuan</a>. <br> <a href=\"https://t.co/dj7MprNWpL\">pic.twitter.com/dj7MprNWpL</a></p>— Angélica Serrano-Román🇵🇷 (@angelicaserran0) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/angelicaserran0/status/1562984773361885184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2022</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"um2e6\">In a Twitter thread, Costa said that Police Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa called him to express regret for the incident and assure him that all claims of violence by the police toward journalists would be investigated.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Anoche recibí una llamada del comisionado de la Policía, Antonio López Figueroa, quien se expresó solidario con nuestro trabajo, se excusó por el incidente y me aseguró que van a investigar la agresión.<br><br>Le agradecí sus palabras. 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Gloninger later <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ChrisGloninger/status/1548382916085817344\">tweeted</a> that in an email three days later, the man wrote, “What’s your home address, we conservative Iowans would like to give you an Iowan welcome you will never forget.”</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/climate?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#climate</a> coverage has garnered negative feedback. But last month I received the first threat, followed by a flow of harassing emails. Police are investigating. It’s mentally exhausting & at times I have NOT been ok. If you’re facing this & need someone to talk to, I’m here. 1/ <a href=\"https://t.co/SGbZfEr1uT\">pic.twitter.com/SGbZfEr1uT</a></p>— Chris Gloninger (@ChrisGloninger) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ChrisGloninger/status/1548382916085817344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2022</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"fhvhq\">The same individual continued sending the threatening emails — sometimes multiple times a week — until at least July 16, the Dispatch <a href=\"https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2022/09/20/iowa-man-fined-for-harassing-tv-weatherman-over-climate-change/\">reported</a>. 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The prosecutors, who had not previously expressed an interest in questioning DeRogatis, told the judge they also hoped to ask the journalist to confirm the timeline of his reporting while at the Sun-Times.</p><p data-block-key=\"djq1e\">Seth Stern, the attorney representing DeRogatis at the hearing, confirmed to the Tracker that Leinenweber granted the motion to quash the subpoena that day. Stern said that the judge agreed that the testimony they were seeking was “cumulative, redundant, unnecessary.”</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A good day for the First Amendment. 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