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Nick Waters / @n_waters89:
[Thread] List of at least 100 separate incidents where journalists experienced violence from law enforcement in the US amid protests after George Floyd's death — We've hit 100 incidents where journalists experienced violence from the police during the #GeorgeFloyd protests. When I started this thread, I thought there would maybe be 7 or 8 examples. Instead what I have seen is a serious disregard for the free press by law enforcement. https://twitter.com/...
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Adolfo Guzman-Lopez / @aguzmanlopez: I just got hit by a rubber bullet near the bottom of my throat. I had just interviewed a man with my phone at 3rd and Pine and a police officer aimed and shot me in the throat, I saw the bullet bounce onto the street @LAist @kpcc OK, that's one way to stop me, for a while https://twitter.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: U.S. police have attacked journalists more than 100 times in the past four days
Michael Anthony Adams / @michaeladams317: Police just raided the gas station we were sheltering at. After shouting press multiple times and raising my press card in the air, I was thrown to the ground. Then another cop came up and peppered sprayed me in the face while I was being held down. https://twitter.com/...
Keith Boykin / @keithboykin: So here's what happened today. The NYPD arrested me at 96th Street and West Side Highway while I was taking photos and video to post to Twitter. I told the police I was with the Press, they walked by me and then turned around and arrested me.
Matthew Dessem / Slate: Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide
Fontaine Carpenter / @_nullifidius: Journalists targeted/attacked by police: @ryanraiche & journalists he was with peppersprayed @MichaelAdams317 held down/peppersprayed @RyanFaircloth car window shot out/injured @mollyhf teargassed/shot w rubber bullets @jcreindl peppersprayed @letsgomathias violently arrested
Katelyn Burns / Vox: Police targeted journalists covering the George Floyd protests
John Cusack / @johncusack: Cops didn't like me filming the burning car so they came at me with batons. Hitting my bike. Ahhm herea the audio https://twitter.com/...
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / @mollyhf: That's the PG version of my leg courtesy of @MnDPS_MSP still going to report tonight and tomorrow https://twitter.com/...
Amanda Barrett / Associated Press: AMERICAN DIARY: To be black and a journalist at this moment
Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed News: Peaceful Protesters Were Gassed Outside The White House So Trump Could Get A Photo Op At A Church
Nick Waters / @n_waters89: The third clear example of a news crew being deliberately targeted by law enforcement in the US I've seen. Anybody else seen similar incidents? https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Maloney / @maloneyfiles: My colleague @tylergabriel_ tweeted about being injured by NYPD during last night's protests. Then a *criminal justice professor* at @WeberStateU posted this. @pressfreedom https://twitter.com/...
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review: The police abuse the press. Again.
Washington Post: Police turn more aggressive against protesters and bystanders alike, adding to disorder
Tom Jackman / Washington Post: Live updates: Police, national guard sweep protesters from Lafayette Square ahead of curfew
Jim Newell / Slate: The Best Trump Can Do Now Is to Do Nothing
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: One of our @latimes colleagues, attacked by police in Minneapolis after identifying herself as a journalist. One of many journalists injured, accosted or arrested in the U.S. tonight while trying to do their jobs. https://twitter.com/...
Ari Shapiro / @arishapiro: As a journalist, I know that I may be a target of law enforcement when I cover conflicts overseas. I know I may be a target of protesters when I cover domestic conflict. But I never thought I'd see police target the press in the United States like this. https://www.google.com/...
@thedailyshow: (1/2) Trevor on George Floyd, the Minneapolis protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper: “While everyone is facing the battle against coronavirus, black people in America are still facing the battle against racism... and coronavirus.” https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Heslop / World News Publishing Focus by WAN-IFRA: CPJ Safety Advisory: Covering US protests over police violence
Tyler Hersko / IndieWire: It's Not a Coincidence That Journalists Covering Protests Are Being Attacked by Police
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: I've never seen so many incidents with police and reporters simultaneously in different cities. Tension between cops and reporters is nothing new. Aggression on reporters in multiple locations nationally at same time is something different. https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: The presidents explosive rhetoric is working https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Paige Lavender / HuffPost Australia: HuffPost Reporter Chris Mathias Arrested While Peacefully Covering NYC Anti-Racism Protest
Des Moines Register: Register reporter pepper-sprayed, arrested while covering George Floyd protest at Merle Hay Mall
Wesley / @wesleylowery: Advancing a “escalating war on the freedom of the press!” narrative requires ignoring that police have been blatantly ignoring the First Amendment rights of protesters — responding to their constitutionally protected speech with state violence — for years
Detroit Free Press: Our journalists are being attacked while doing their jobs. This is unacceptable.
Jane C. Hu / @jane_c_hu: a thread of instances where journalists have reported being shot at, injured, arrested, or harassed by police while documenting US protests:
Para / @paracelsus: The way— specifically the manner— these policemen are targeting journos has stopped being a coincidence https://twitter.com/...
@chillmage: One-off videos of police violence usually lead to endless debate over details with people finding context to justify the abuse. A lot of what we are seeing right now is simply naked violence. You can't invent context for it that makes any sense https://twitter.com/...
Mark Berman / @markberman: Trying to keep up with the chaos in city after city, one of the most prominent things that stands out: Police being protested over how they use force are ramping up that force, in some cases taking aim at bystanders + journalists https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
David Fahrenthold / @fahrenthold: NEW: Police turned more aggressive against protestors last night — and bystanders, and journalists — with more violent tactics that were meant to restore order. Often, they did the opposite, adding grievance on grievance and chaos on chaos. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@cjr: Police officers are sanctioned to commit violence; that means journalists must apply sharp scrutiny to their actions, not grant automatic credulity, @Jon_Allsop writes. https://www.cjr.org/...
@niemanlab: As of Monday morning, @bellingcat's Nick Waters had identified 92 incidents of violence against U.S. journalists covering the Black Lives Matter protests over the last week. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Tom Jones / Poynter: Attacks on media covering the protests are simply following the president's rhetoric
Leila Fadel / @leilafadel: “Police all over the country teargassed protestors, drove vehicles through crowds, opened fire with non-lethal rounds on journalists or people on their own property, & in at least one instance, pushed over an elderly man who was walking away with a cane.” https://slate.com/...
F L O R / @flor: listen. understand. and help if you can. sign the petition to fully prosecute the murderers of george floyd: https://www.change.org/... donate: https://secure.actblue.com/... do not stay silent #blacklivesmatter https://twitter.com/...
Ilan Goldenberg / @ilangoldenberg: The President has spent 4 years inciting against the media & signaling to police that there will be no consequences for violent tactics. This is the natural result. https://twitter.com/...
Barry Malone / @malonebarry: The ground has been firmly laid over the last few years for US security forces to attack journalists. Calling us enemies of the people will be heard by many who will understand it as a green light. As made all too clear in almost 30 examples here. https://twitter.com/...
Alfons Lpez Tena / @alfonslopeztena: US police have attacked journalists at least 100 times in the past 4 days — In the majority of the cases the journalists were clearly identifiable as press, and it is clear that they are being deliberately targeted https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Richard Schiff / @richard_schiff: Remember the 1st Amendment? bellingcat - US Law Enforcement Are Deliberately Targeting Journalists During George Floyd Protests - bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/...
Yasmin Yusuf / @yasminyusuf200: “This selection of incidents demonstrates that law enforcement across multiple cities, but especially in Minneapolis, are knowingly and deliberately targeting journalists with less lethal munitions, arrests and other forms of violence.” https://twitter.com/...
Jamil Smith / @jamilsmith: When the president encourages police violence and also calls the press the “enemy of the people,” this is what happens. https://twitter.com/...
Empress Rocka / @therealbamfhbic: Attacking the Free Press is a sure sign you know what you're doing isn't right. And that means anything from calling it fake news to pepper-spraying reporters to shooting them with rubber bullets. This travesty lies at the feet of @POTUS & The @WhiteHouse https://twitter.com/...
Josie Ensor / @josiensor: This is awful news. @agrayphoto and I have been working together in New York. He was arrested by NYPD despite identifying himself as press. More than 90 journalists have been arrested, attacked or injured, some of whom deliberately, while covering the protests across the US https://twitter.com/...
Richard Stengel / @stengel: Well, that's what happens when the press are called the enemy of the people over and over. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Learmonth / @learmonth: Another view of a @vicenews reporter getting shoved to the ground and pepper sprayed in the face. https://twitter.com/...
Sherrod Brown / @sensherrodbrown: Journalists should not be targeted by the police, period. They are the beating heart of our democracy's free press. Make no mistake - this disrespect towards journalists starts at the top, with a President who has demonized them for years as the “enemy of the people”. https://twitter.com/...
Torey Van Oot / Star Tribune: Media members injured, one arrested while covering unrest in Minnesota
Eliot Higgins / @eliothiggins: Since we wrote about the 29 incidents in this article, published 2 hours ago, a further 21 incidents have been identified by @N_Waters89 https://twitter.com/...
Sean Carroll / @seanmcarroll: The President of the United States routinely refers to the press as “the Enemy of the People.” You can't be surprised when some people actually listen to him. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Tinworth / One Man & His Blog: Engaged Reading Digest: the escalation of trolling to the global stage
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: For years we had faux outrage & endless op-eds on the threat to free speech on campus, over ‘PC gone mad’, the Intellectual Dark Web et al. Now we have an actual, real, violent, state-sponsored threat to free speech, to the media, and many of those folks are predictably silent. https://twitter.com/...
Columbia Journalism / @columbiajourn: Reporter for @DMRegister, @andreamsahouri, a 2019 @columbiajourn graduate, was pepper sprayed and arrested while covering protests in Des Moines. She broadcast her arrest from the back of a police van. Glad to hear she's out now and okay! https://twitter.com/...
Yamiche Alcindor / @yamiche: Another black man arrested while reporting. This is unacceptable. https://twitter.com/...
Katie Mack / @astrokatie: “The violence appears so widespread and consistent that you could be mistaken for thinking it's coordinated at a national level. To some extent, it is: President Trump has cheered on police violence like a fan at a sports event” https://www.theverge.com/...
Eliot Higgins / @eliothiggins: Bellingcat's @N_Waters89 has been collecting examples of the US police targeting journalists, both domestic and foreign, during the recent protests against the killing of George Floyd. So far, 29 incidents have been identified in the land of the free. https://www.bellingcat.com/...
David Plouffe / @davidplouffe: 1) He is going to cause more reporters to be shot. 2) Transparently afraid there will be Russian and MAGA ties confirmed to the looting and violence. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: He's moved from instructing supporters to “pre-reject” the news accounts journalist produce... to encouraging police to treat news crews as makers and spreaders of anarchy. Don't @ me with “nothing new,” please. I'm tired of it.
Peter Beaumont / The Guardian: ‘Rotten racism’: newspapers around the world react to George Floyd protests
Andrew Stroehlein / @astroehlein: 100 incidents of police using violence against journalists at #GeorgeFloyd protests... And that's just the ones compiled in this list. The real figure is likely to be higher. https://twitter.com/...
Esmeralda Bermudez / @bermudezwrites: Reporters are being targeted and attacked nationwide by police simply for documenting and witnessing this historic moment. https://twitter.com/...
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker / @uspresstracker: On the @USPressTracker site, we're publishing stories on all of them. You can see all the #GeorgeFloyd protest stories we've posted so far here. However, there have been so many attacks, and they've been happening so fast, this is just a fraction of them https://pressfreedomtracker.us/ ...
Blair Miller / @blairmillertv: Thank you, Senator. https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes: Deliberate, targeted attacks by law enforcement across the US in an atmosphere of licensed hate for the press, hand-in-hand with the licensed racism https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Levitt / @levitt_matt: Read this. It will make you feel uncomfortable. Read it anyway https://twitter.com/...
Joe Concha / The Hill: More than 60 reporters attacked, arrested or harassed since George Floyd protests began, group says
@freedomofpress: Investigators with Bellingcat have “identified at least 50 separate incidents where journalists have been attacked by law enforcement” during protests over the killing of George Floyd. https://www.bellingcat.com/...
John Bresnahan / @brespolitico: U.S. police have attacked journalists at least 100 times in the past four days » Nieman Journalism Lab https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Jonathan Landay / @jonathanlanday: “Bellingcat has identified and collected multiple instances of US law enforcement deliberately targeting journalists during the protests against the killing of George Floyd.” https://twitter.com/...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: The press has been targeted before in protests but this scale is new. It's in every city. I'll say it again: This looks coordinated. https://www.vox.com/...
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: MSNBC's Garrett Haake, Ali Velshi Struck by Rubber Projectiles While Reporting On-Air
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: NYPD Union Doxes Mayor's Daughter on Twitter
Celia Sue / LAUGHTER AND TEARS: Free Press Literally Under Fire
Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart: Video: Police Force John Cusack from Protest Area as Rioters Loot
Brakkton Booker / NPR: Violence Erupts As Outrage Over George Floyd Death Spills Into A New Week
Gregg Re / Fox News: Susan Rice makes claim Russians could be behind violent George Floyd demonstrations
Alison Rourke / The Guardian: Rage and anguish: how the US papers have covered the George Floyd protests
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As reporters across the US are attacked, in some cases with rubber bullets, or arrested by cops while covering protests, an overview of over a dozen examples — Ali Velshi knew almost instantly what had happened when he felt a sharp pain in his leg Saturday night in Minneapolis: He'd been hit with a rubber bullet fired by police.
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Tyler Blint- Welsh / @tylergabriel_: Lost my glasses and my ankle is in searing pain after NYPD hit me in the face multiple times with riot shields and pushed me to the ground. I was backing away as request, with my hands up. My NYPD-issued press badge was clearly visible. I'm just sitting here crying. This sucks.
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / @mollyhf: Minnesota State Patrol just fired tear gas at reporters and photographers at point blank range. https://twitter.com/...
Phoebe Leila Barghouty / @plbarghouty: NYPD violently arresting protestors, journalists. They rushed @DGisSERIOUS and i with riot shields even though we were complying and credentialed. I think this might be @letsgomathias ? Would love if someone can confirm. https://twitter.com/...
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic: The Protests Will Spread the Coronavirus
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post: Trump has sown hatred of the press for years. Now journalists are under assault from police and protesters alike.
@nytimes: Minneapolis: A photographer was shot in the eye. Washington, D.C.: Protesters struck a journalist with his own microphone. Louisville: A reporter was hit by a pepper ball on live television by an officer who appeared to be aiming at her. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Donald J. Trump / @realdonaldtrump: Much more “disinformation” coming out of CNN, MSDNC, @nytimes and @washingtonpost, by far, than coming out of any foreign country, even combined. Fake News is the Enemy of the People!
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times: Times reporter recounts being hit with tear gas and rubber bullets by Minnesota police
Ted Johnson / @tedstew: US Press Freedom Tracker says that they have so far documented at least 100 different “incidents of aggression” against the media over the weekend, but more from today have yet to be counted. There have been more than 60 assaults of journalists, per the group.
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: Journalists Become Targets While Covering America's Unraveling
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / @mollyhf: Here's the story of how @Carolyn_Cole and I were fired on by @MnDPS_MSP #Minneapolis Times reporter recounts being hit with tear gas and rubber bullets by Minnesota police https://www.latimes.com/...
@latimes: “I've covered protests involving police,” writes @mollyhf from Minneapolis. “I've also covered the U.S. military in war zones, including Iraq and Afghanistan. I have never been fired at by police until tonight.” https://www.latimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kristen Hare / Poynter: In nearly every state, front pages capture outrage after George Floyd's death
Jake Tapper / @jaketapper: There's too muc violence to even absorb. It's soul crushing. But re law enforcement attacks on and arrests of journalists, I keep thinking of what Gov Walz said when apologizing for the unjust and frankly idiotic arrest of @OmarJimenez and his crew... 1/3 https://twitter.com/...
Tim Cushing / Techdirt: Cops — Newly Wary Of Looking Like Authoritarian Assholes — Open Fire On, Arrest Journalists
@wcco: BREAKING: A veteran WCCO photographer is under arrest, taken into custody by the State Patrol. Award-winning photographer Tom Aviles was struck by a rubber bullet. | https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Mona Eltahawy / @monaeltahawy: Linda Tirado, a freelance photographer, activist and author, was shot in the left eye by police in #Minneapolis. She is one of a number of journalists around the US who were attacked, arrested or otherwise harassed during their coverage of the uprisings https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mark Vancleave / @mdvancleave: After arrests of journalists in Minneapolis, the Star Tribune is issuing us new king-size press badges. For @shijundu's, the company lawyer decided to use her booking photo from her arrest while coving #PhilandoCastile protests in 2017.😆 https://twitter.com/...
Julia Turner / @juliaturner: The talented, brave photographers of the @latimes—including one who police fired tear gas at in Minneapolis, from feet away, even though she wore a jacket marked PRESS—have captured extraordinary images of the protests and conflicts with police: https://www.latimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Julio-César Chávez / @juliocesrchavez: Tonight I was shot in the arm and the back of my neck with rubber bullets in the middle of covering the Minneapolis protests. My security advisor was shot in the face; his gas mask protected him. Here's what happened: https://reuters.com/... Here's what it looks like: https://twitter.com/...
James Fallows / The Atlantic: Is This the Worst Year in Modern American History?
Sara Fischer / Axios: Journalists get caught in the crosshairs as protests unfold
Eric Boehm / Reason: Nation's Cops Seem Determined To Demonstrate Why People Are Protesting Them in the First Place
Matt Brennan / Los Angeles Times: From an L.A. riots doc to a reality TV respite: 5 shows to watch this week
Amber Jamieson / @ambiej: HuffPost report Christopher Mathias — who regularly covers protests, was covering Brooklyn protests last night, has been tweeting from the protests all day — has just been arrested by NYPD in Brooklyn. I've asked DCPI for more information. https://twitter.com/...
Jared Kaufman / Nosh Box: The Minneapolis restaurant owner who said “Let my building burn. Justice needs to be served”
David Roberts / @drvox: Exactly as intended, Trump's attacks on the press have put journalists in danger. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: In Las Vegas, two photojournalists on assignment to cover protests were taken into police custody on Friday night. Review-Journal editor @Glenn_CookNV says “they never should have been touched, let alone arrested and then booked into jail.” https://www.cnn.com/...
Ron Wyden / @ronwyden: Journalists play a vital role in shedding light on abuses of power. For 4 years Donald Trump has spewed anti-journalist rhetoric, even encouraged violence. Now we're seeing the impact of his words. I stand with journalists who continue to speak truth to power no matter the cost. https://twitter.com/...
Julie Mason / @juliemason: One photographer was reportedly hit in the face with a rubber bullet that exploded her eyeball and left her partially blind. https://www.cnn.com/...
Sari Botton / Adventures In “Journalism”: Supporting Journalists and Journalism, Which Are Under Assault
Katelyn Kivel / COURIER: ‘Walk With Us’: Michigan Showed Police Across the Country How They Should Be Treating Protesters
Julian Wyllie / Current: Public media reporters arrested, face attacks from police while covering protests
Paul Blest / VICE: Driving Through Crowds and Firing on Porches: Cops Across the Country Were Out of Control This Weekend
Ashley Southall / @ashleyattimes: There are so few Black men in New York City's press corp and they are the kind of journalists who have an indispensable perspective that we need in this moment because of their experiences in that identity. And that makes what police did to Tyler so much more outrageous. https://twitter.com/...
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: NYC Sunday night, @WSJ reporter https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Nick Brown / @nickpbrown: My colleagues are now among the growing list of journalists who've been shot at by police. I'm seething with rage, and also feeling as hopeless as I've ever felt in my life. https://twitter.com/...
Angus Macfadyen / @macfadyenangus: western journalists sold their soul in 2003 when they embedded with US forces and reported back the lies they were fed on WMD in Iraq. Now militarized forces on the ground in their own country are coming for them and they are shocked, shocked. Chickens, meet your roost. https://twitter.com/...
Cliff Levy / @cliffordlevy: Read @peterbakernyt: “With a nation on edge, ravaged by disease, hammered by economic collapse, divided over lockdowns and even face masks and now convulsed once again by race, President Trump's first instinct has been to look for someone to fight.” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: Many of these incidents, because they target the press, were captured live on camera. The footage could help to verify unnecessary police action against journalists. https://www.axios.com/...
Jonathan Lemire / @jonlemire: Hours after journalists are arrested and assaulted covering protests across the country https://twitter.com/...
Kamala Harris / @senkamalaharris: A free and independent press is a bedrock of our democracy. It's part of what sets us apart from dictatorships. Attacking press who are on the ground during these protests is horrifying and undermines our democracy. This must stop immediately. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Conover / @adamconover: American police are deliberately attacking journalists. “Militarized police” isn't an adequate descriptor anymore; we've turned them into a paramilitary army that violates the Geneva Conventions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@reuters: From Los Angeles to Minneapolis to New York, what seemed like isolated attacks on the press at political rallies and protests over the last few years has intensified, according to some media experts https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@reuters: Over a three-day period, organizations that track press violence documented about two dozen acts of violence https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@reuters: CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez and his crew were arrested on live television while covering a protest following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Friday evening https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer: From Minneapolis to broken streets of Philly, the ‘human capital stock’ has finally had enough
Laura Bassett / @lebassett: Well congrats NYPD, you just arrested the nicest man on the planet with his press pass clearly hanging from his neck. Let him go. https://twitter.com/...
@washingtonpost: Journalists at several protests were injured, arrested by police while trying to cover the story https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
NowThis / @nowthisnews: A man wearing a helmet labeled ‘PRESS’ reacts to getting hit by an apparent police projectile in Minneapolis. Numerous members of the press have been been assaulted or arrested by law enforcement while covering protests nationally https://twitter.com/...
Ted Johnson / Deadline: Press Foundation Documents At Least 100 Different “Incidents Of Aggressions” Against Media During Weekend Of Protests
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: WSJ union condemns assault on reporter
Christopher Mathias / @letsgomathias: I'm home & overwhelmed by all your messages of love & support. Thank you. I'll explain more about my arrest later but for now just know it was bogus, as were the arrests of all the brave New Yorkers protesting against a police force that routinely terrorizes this city.
Max Berger / @maxberger: More evidence of police targeting and shooting at journalists. These are authoritarian tactics: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Nick Valencia / @cnnvalencia: My cameraman and I were shot by protestors at CNN Center Friday with what we believe were BB gun pellets. I took it in the back and stomach. He got it in the pelvis. https://twitter.com/...
@twittermoments: More journalists reporting on protests are being arrested by police in NYC and Minneapolis, following the arrest of CNN's @OmarJimenez on Friday. https://twitter.com/...
Angus Johnston / @studentactivism: A dozen reporters targeted by cops, teargassed at point-blank range after identifying themselves as journalists, Minneapolis. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: Lawless behavior by the police, targeting working journalists who are there to serve as the eyes and the ears of the public. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Lamothe / @danlamothe: I've worked alongside Molly covering stories for different publications. She's a pro, and not prone to exaggeration. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Chris Mathias is one of the best extremism reporters in the world. This is definitely him. Huffpost is working to get him released. https://twitter.com/...
Stephanie Ruhle / @sruhle: Please watch this. Thank you for your reporting @mollyhf https://twitter.com/...
@cmclymer: Here's a journalist with @latimes giving her account of Minneapolis State Police firing on a group of reporters at point-blank range and refusing to answer questions about where to go: https://twitter.com/...
Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley / @lottelydia: Thank you for producing this handout that I can give to my students to explain the politics of the passive vs. active voice. https://twitter.com/...
Ginger Gibson / @gingergibson: This is abhorrent. I've worked a protest with Rod before and there is no one I can think of who is safer and cautious in the face of upheaval. There is zero chance they were confused for anything other than working journalists. https://twitter.com/...
Paul Mcleary / @paulmcleary: After 4 years of “the press is the enemy of the people,” police officers across the country are actively targeting reporters. https://twitter.com/...
@thr: MSNBC host Ali Velshi tweeted Saturday he'd been hit by rubber bullets “but I am fine,” he posted. “State police supported by National Guard fired unprovoked into an entirely peaceful rally.” https://thr.cm/5XBQpdZ
@reuters: Two members of a Reuters TV crew were hit by rubber bullets and injured in Minneapolis when police moved into an area occupied by about 500 protesters. More here: https://www.reuters.com/... 📷@JulioCesrChavez https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: “Although doctors told her that she is not likely to recover her vision, she is grateful for one thing: she shoots with her right eye.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Chris Gardner / @chrissgardner: So many journalists — and innocent protestors — hit today by rubber bullets, gas, otherwise pummeled in the act of covering an unprecedented moment in history. All of this after @OmarJimenez arrested on live TV. https://hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Anand Giridharadas / @anandwrites: Just wow. https://twitter.com/...
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: Press badges are a target now https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Stroehlein / @astroehlein: State Patrol in Minneapolis shot another photojournalist with a rubber bullet, forced him to the ground and arrested him. The video makes clear he identified himself as press, but obscenity shouting officers ignored that. https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@wjz: Our sister station WCCO reports on of its award-winning veteran photographer Tom Aviles has been struck by a rubber bullet and taken into custody by the State Patrol Saturday night. https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/ ...
Laurie David / @laurie_david: “By denigrating journalists so often, he has degraded respect for what journalists do and the crucial role they play in a democracy,” Trump has sown hatred of the press for years. Now journalists are under assault from police and protesters alike. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@wcco: WCCO photographer Tom Aviles, who was hit with a rubber bullet and arrested earlier this evening, is now out of custody. | https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Stahl / @b_stahl: Someone told the state patrol that media are exempt from the curfew right? https://twitter.com/...
Monte Poole / @montepoolenbcs: He consistently says ‘the media is the enemy of the people.’ Some are dense enough to believe every lying word. https://twitter.com/...
Colby Hall / @colbyhall: Fox News internal memo from Suzanne Scott condemning attacks on their reporters and crew last night: https://twitter.com/...
Nick Valencia / @cnnvalencia: I wore a white t-shirt yesterday. I went to give my daughter a bath and my wife said I had something on my back. It's blood from the wound that was still bleeding. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brit Hume / @brithume: This writer seems to imagine that the rioters who have attacked journalists are Trump supporters responding to his attacks on the media. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
New York Times:
Reporters and photographers say the treatment of journalists in recent days reflects an erosion of trust in media that's seeped into law enforcement under Trump — 'I've really never seen anything like this': Reporters and news photographers describe being roughed up, arrested and shot …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: Dozens of journalists attacked and arrested at US George Floyd protests
Alexandra Stevenson / @jotted: “I've been covering conflict both nationally and internationally for many years, so I know the dangers involved in these situations, especially when you get between riot police and protesters, but I wasn't expecting them to attack us directly.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: Maggie Koerth, a reporter for FiveThirtyEight, was covering a protest in Minneapolis when police drew a weapon on her. “We said, ‘press, press!’” They kept pointing the weapon. And one of them said: “Shut up.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Corby Kummer / @ckummer: “I don't care, get down,” an officer responds. Then Mr. Adams was sprayed with what he believes was pepper spray. “That's something I would expect in Turkey,” he said. “But in America, I wouldn't have expected this.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@hirokotabuchi: “There is now a culture of impunity for attacks on the press.” Police Target Journalists as Trump Blames ‘Lamestream Media’ for Protests, by @RachelAbramsNY @marcatracy https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tracy Brown / Los Angeles Times: As Trump blames ‘lamestream media,’ journalists arrested and injured during protests
Carlos Lozada / @carloslozadawp: “It is common in autocratic countries for journalists to be arrested during demonstrations and riots, but rare in the United States, where freedom of the press is guaranteed by the First Amendment.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant: feels like the needle is moving. from shop owners telling reporters ‘let my shop burn if there can be justice’ to the empathy w desperate protestors to more refusal to cow to looting tropes to the framing in mainstream stories like this—something feels new https://slate.com/...
John Hendren / @johnhendren: I can confirm this is happening in Minneapolis. They shot rubber bullets at us AFTER we yelled “We are press.” https://www.nytimes.com/... via @NYTimes
Marc Tracy / @marcatracy: “The president has called the news media ‘the enemy of the people.’ I think all of that has taken a toll.” An extraordinary development has been the number of journalists who've run afoul of law enforcement during protests. By @RachelAbramsNY and me. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mark Little / @marklittlenews: “In the majority of the cases we have recorded the journalists are clearly identifiable as press, and it is clear that they are being deliberately targeted.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Jun / The Real Deal New York: “America is in crisis:” Real estate leaders address George Floyd protests
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Amid record ratings and chaos on cable news, Jeff Zucker considers running for NYC mayor, NBC's boss ponders CNBC as a nightly right-wing talk channel, and more — Cable networks are facing threats, and opportunities, in a national crisis. Now, Fox is fighting back and CNBC is looking to the right.
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Ben Smith / @benyt: Fox News, threatened by @mmfa & @slpng_giants, has created a secret new unit to push back https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: And the new boss at NBC is considering turning CNBC into a right-wing talk channel at night https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: CNN's Jeff Zucker is thinking about running for Mayor of New York next year https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Building secretive units to covertly discredit critics isn't something most news orgs do! https://twitter.com/...
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite: CNN President Jeff Zucker Hints at Run For New York City Mayor: ‘I Always Like a Challenge’
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Fox News continues its journey as the most vile news org ever https://twitter.com/...
Bobby Burack / Outkick the Coverage: CNBC Considering Right-Wing Primetime Lineup
William Davis / The Daily Caller: REPORT: CNN President Jeff Zucker Considering Run For Mayor Of NYC
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Pay attention - this is serious stuff. Trump has gone out of his way, repeatedly, relentlessly, to attack Comcast ('Con-cast!') at his rallies & pressers and his attacks are working - Comcast now wants to create a new Fox News on CNBC to appease the Orange Fascist in the bunker: https://twitter.com/...
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: Jeff Zucker When Asked About Mayoral Aspirations: ‘I Always Like a Challenge;’ …
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: NYT: Russiagate obsession saved MSNBC and enriched its on-air stars, but the “disappointing conclusion” — in which nothing that their hosts promised actually happened — caused ratings to “plummet” as confused and disoriented viewers turned away en masse: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mike Shields / @digitalshields: Lachlan and James Murdoch are the Ivanka and Jared of media. They know dad's evil and crazy, they're supposedly embarrassed, yet are totally complicit
Brian Beutler / @brianbeutler: If Trump wins re-election, more and more media companies and platforms will cave to Trump's threat to grind them down if they don't transmit regime propaganda. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Zeitlin / @mattzeitlin: can't wait for the four way don jr, andrew yang, michael cohen, jeff zucker new york mayoral race https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Fave part is the epic burn from @benyt is that they are shitty versions of the always shitty Roger Ailes: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Katie Rosman / @katierosman: I wonder how Jeff Zucker's CNN reporters feel about him giving this scoop to the NYT. https://twitter.com/...
Angelo Carusone / @goangelo: Being destructive and defeitful is so core Fox News that they're actually spending money so that disreputable people can try and help Fox maintain. Won't work. 1) Because we have receipts; 2) We're already onto their cable fees (fox's biggest revenue source). https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: Given Fox's business model, “create a secret smear squad” is significantly more cost-effective than “stop airing bigotry and propaganda.” https://twitter.com/...
Tommy Vietor / @tvietor08: As yes, the liberal media. A guy Obama tapped to run the BBG pivoting his network to right-wing MAGA talk with Mark Levin. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: So far most companies have resisted the “regulatory favors for right-wing propaganda” deal that Trump's put on the table but Facebook said yes and it looks like Comcast may join them. It seems unwise to just assume Amazon and TimeWarner will say no forever. https://twitter.com/...
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: CNN Head Jeff Zucker Teases Run for NYC Mayor in 2021
Joe Concha / The Hill: CNN's Zucker hints at New York City mayoral run in 2021: ‘I always like a challenge’
David Sirota / @davidsirota: Counterpoint: the network that does fluff CEO interviews, shills for Wall Street billionaires and aired Rick Santelli's disgusting rant against poor people is already a right-wing talk channel https://twitter.com/...
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: NBCU Said To Be Mulling Right-Wing Programming For CNBC
LZ Granderson / Los Angeles Times:
Black journalists describe the emotional consequences of covering endless police brutality, most recently with George Floyd — When my cell rang, an unfamiliar number popped up on the screen. Normally I ignore these calls, certain my service provider has sold my information to half the country's telemarketing companies.
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Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, Knicks Film School, Fortune, @cmonstah, @kylegriffin1, Fox News and KTLA
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Washington Post: ‘The terror of wearing both a press badge and black skin’: Black journalists are carrying unique burdens
Chris Mannix / Sports Illustrated: ‘This Is a Moment’: George Floyd Protests Hit Home for NBA Players
Ellen McGirt / Fortune: Citigroup, Netflix, and Microsoft among companies making statements in support of Black lives and justice
Carolina A. Miranda / @cmonstah: “In journalism school they teach you the importance of removing yourself from the story. But there aren't any courses on managing your mental health when you are repeatedly reflected in gut-wrenching stories.” Great read from @LZGranderson: https://www.latimes.com/...
Kyle Griffin / @kylegriffin1: .@Yamiche: “I feel like I got in a car accident. I survived, but I can see all of the air bag, which is unnerving. Then I get back in the car and get in another car accident, and the airbags go off . They keep going off.” “I feel this story in my bones.” https://www.latimes.com/...
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Patrice Peck / New York Times:
A freelance reporter reflects on this exhausting and peculiar time for black journalists covering death and suffering during the pandemic and protests — But we keep on keeping on. — Ms. Peck is a journalist. — Two weeks ago, when I first pitched this essay about the unique stressors …
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@wesleylowery, @wesleylowery, @lvzwestcott, New Republic, @nytopinion, @speakpatrice, @freeblackgirl and @yamiche
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Wesley / @wesleylowery: The difficulty in these moments is it's impossible to say objectively true, historically neutral things grounded in research, reporting & expertise without a large swath of ppl (including journalists) interpreting them as “political opinions” because so few have done the reading
Wesley / @wesleylowery: This from @Yamiche, who has covered these stories as closely as anyone... I've literally felt all consuming physical pain for days. Then one of my brothers posted a photo from a protest and I felt fear like never before in my life. Fear I'd wish on no one https://www.latimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lucy Westcott / @lvzwestcott: “Investment in black journalists is critical, not only through equitable compensation for our contributions, but also in addressing burnout, layoffs and mental wellness, particularly among those of us who keep on keeping on” https://www.nytimes.com/... (by @SpeakPatrice)
Nick Martin / New Republic: Tear Gas Doesn't Deploy Itself
@nytopinion: “As we've heard again and again, these are extraordinary times. However, it's an especially peculiar time to be a black journalist,” writes @SpeakPatrice. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Patrice Peck / @speakpatrice: I wrote about the unique stressors of being a Black journalist covering Black death/suffering during the pandemic, the industry's own racial disparities & the importance of institutional support & equitable compensation for our labor (invisible work incl.) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Evette Dionne / @freeblackgirl: Black people were already navigating a lot of trauma and grief because of racial disparities in who contracts coronavirus and who dies from it. Now, we're facing even more trauma and grief, and Black journalists are a part of that. Take care of them. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Yamiche Alcindor / @yamiche: Spoke w/ @LZGranderson about covering this as a black reporter. I said, “I feel like I got in a car accident. I survived, but I can see all of the air bags...Then I get back in the car & get in another car accident, & the airbags go off again...& again.” https://www.latimes.com/...
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
TechCrunch, which has hosted 10 members-only Extra Crunch Live virtual events since launching in April, says Extra Crunch subscriptions have risen 600% YoY — As publisher events have been forced online, they are becoming more entrenched with other parts of the business, particularly subscriptions.
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@wvunewstart: “Publishers are working out the wider role digital events play going forward as advertisers become more comfortable w/ format. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, but how sub. strategies intersect will become more clear, focused.” @Digiday : https://digiday.com/...
@emedia_patch: The link between in-person events and subscriptions has always existed. As the events became virtual, publishers started using them as incentive for users to subscribe to paid-for programs. Read more details here https://digiday.com/...
Jon Steinberg / LinkedIn:
Cheddar says it will combine its business and headline news networks into a single stream to “simplify the confusion between the two Cheddars” — President Altice News and Advertising at Altice USA — “Cheddar is Everywhere” has always been a core focus for our network.
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Jill Wagner / @jillwagnertv: Big day for us here at @cheddar! Our two networks have become one. If you're looking for a fresh take on the news, no spin, no political angle, no talking heads... just the news (and a lot of fun), tune in! https://twitter.com/...
Julian Clover / Broadband TV News: Cheddar scales back to single network
Lindsay Underwood / National Press Club:
18 journalism orgs, including The National Press Club, pen open letter to police to end the use of violence and arrests against journalists covering protests — The following open letter to police nationwide was signed by 18 organizations including: The National Press Club (NPC) …
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@pressclubdc, @mccarrennews, @pressfreedom, @nabj, @rtdna, @mccarrennews, @lindsaymaude, @baekdal, @ona and WebWire
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@pressclubdc: Today @PressClubDC, @NPCInstitute, and 16 other journalism organizations called for law enforcement nationwide to halt the use of violence against journalists covering protests: https://www.press.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Bill McCarren / @mccarrennews: “When you silence the Press with rubber bullets you silence the voice of the public....do not abandon our Constitution and its First Amendment.” https://twitter.com/...
@pressfreedom: CPJ joins @PressClubDC, @NPCInstitute, and partner organizations in calling for police nationwide to halt the use of violence and arrests against journalists covering protests. @RSF_en @JamesFoleyFund @NABJ @womenjournos @nabtweets @freedomhouse https://www.press.org/...
NABJ Headquarters / @nabj: We are proud to join the @PressClubDC as we call for law enforcement nationwide to stop the use of violence against journalists. #PressFreedom https://twitter.com/...
@rtdna: RTDNA joins the @PressClubDC, @NPCInstitute and 15 other journalism organizations in calling for law enforcement nationwide to halt the use of violence against journalists covering protests. https://www.press.org/...
Bill McCarren / @mccarrennews: After this letter was released we heard from even more Press Freedom organizations wanting to sign on. I think we are now at a total of 21 organizations representing thousands of people. https://twitter.com/...
Lindsay Underwood / @lindsaymaude: “These cities belong to all of us. The people that live in them will learn of your bravery and courage and training through news coverage by journalists. Do not fire upon them. Do not arrest them. The world is watching. Let the Press tell the story.” @PressClubDC @brianstelter https://twitter.com/...
Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: As a media analyst, I obviously support this. But let's not forget that this protest isn't about us. Attacks on the press are incredibly bad, but it dwarfs in comparison to what is happening to black people. We should call on law enforcement to halt use of violence in general!! https://twitter.com/...
Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal:
YouTube and YouTube TV have more than 100M people in the US watching on TV screens each month, rising 80% YoY in March, according to the company — Usage of YouTube on TV screens is growing, but it remains primarily a mobile channel for advertisers — YouTube wants advertisers to spend …
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Hachette, Penguin Random House, Wiley, HarperCollins sue Internet Archive, saying its project to let users borrow ebooks scanned from books violates copyrights — ‘Giving away what is not yours is simply stealing,’ say authors — Four major book publishers have filed suit …
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Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times: Publishers Sue Internet Archive Over Free E-Books
@verge: New comment from @brewster_kahle: “Publishers suing libraries for lending books — in this case, protected digitized versions, and while schools and libraries are closed — is not in anyone's interest.”
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Reporters at South Carolina's Post & Courier, owned by Evening Post Industries, express concern at being forced to return to offices, despite rising COVID cases — “It just seems cruel,” one staffer said of the Post & Courier's edict. The announcement came the day after S.C. had its highest single-day jump in COVID cases.
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@janiehaseman, @thedailybeast, @maxwelltani, @jbenton, @hshaban, @maxwelltani and @davidfolkenflik
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@janiehaseman: also buried in here: a @postandcourier editor was fired for allowing a *reader* to share a @Poynter story (about the @postandcourier's WFH policies) to a subscriber FB page. https://twitter.com/...
@thedailybeast: On the same day that South Carolina had its largest number of coronavirus deaths, the company that owns the Post & Courier had a message for the newspaper's staff: You're all coming back to the office next week https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: South Carolina's largest newspaper is requiring staff to return to the offices full-time beginning today. Staff fear the decision puts them at greater risk of getting coronavirus. https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: The @postandcourier is a terrific local news success story, and @SCMitchP is a great editor who I have to think is getting terrible orders from above. But this is ridiculous. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: I don't know of any major news outlet that is forcing employees back into the office except this one: https://twitter.com/...