As part of #CoveringClimateNow, a project co-founded by @thenation and our partner @CJR, we’re highlighting cases of journalists working to cover climate change who have been captured in the @uspresstracker database : cjr.org/covering_clima…
NYPD officers arrested independent journalist @Nigrotime while he was covering an #ExtinctionRebellion demonstration in June. Both Nigro’s cell phone and camera were seized as evidence and not returned to him until a week later : #CoveringClimateNow pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/…
On May 3, a Pennsylvania judge denied a natural gas company’s attempt to subpoena two @PittsburghPG reporters and an editor, citing state’s shield law : #CoveringClimateNow pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/…
On May 30, Pittsburgh-based journalist @reidfrazier was barred from publishing details of a sealed settlement involving the same natural gas company after it was made publicly available due to a “software glitch” : #CoveringClimateNow pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/…
On May 22, 2018 security guards at the @EPA prevented multiple journalists from entering a building where then-EPA administrator Scott Pruitt was giving a speech. @AP reporter @EllenKnickmeyer was physically pushed out of the building : #CoveringClimateNow pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/…
On Dec. 1, 2017, @EPA authorities removed InsideSources Iowa reporter Ethan Stoetzer from an event with then-EPA administrator Scott Pruitt that was open to the press and livestreamed to the public by the @DMRegister : #CoveringClimateNow pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/…
In the course of the 2017 North Dakota Access Pipeline protests in Standing Rock, eight journalists were arrested, six had their equipment searched or seized and one was injured when shot by police with rubber bullets : #CoveringClimateNow pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/…
The North Dakota legislature has since proposed legislation to make records related to pipeline projects in the state exempt from open records requests. It was signed into law on April 9 of this year : #CoveringClimateNow
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On Oct. 26, 2018, freelance investigative reporter @mathsavage was arrested for a second time while covering anti-pipeline protests in Louisiana. The local district attorney did not bring any criminal charges against her : #CoveringClimateNow pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/…
If you are a journalist—or know of one—who has been arrested, subpoenaed, ordered not to publish, or had equipment stolen, seized, searched or damaged in the course of covering a climate story, we want to hear about it: DM or email tips@pressfreedomtracker.us
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