Save the News, a media reform project of Free Press, criticized the Minnesota Associated Press Friday for story submission guidelines that focus on calamities like train wrecks, car accidents and tornadoes — with the more death the better.…
Of the 800-plus people who were arrested or detained in conjunction with RNC protests, a good chunk of them — 43, by our count — were members of the news media. Media representatives in town to cover the events, from both big and small presses, were slapped with citations and pending charges ranging in severity, including unlawful assembly, obstructing the legal process, misdemeanor interference with a peace officer and felony to riot plus other riot pretenses. Many others who weren’t arrested or detained endured pepper-spray and other arms used for crowd-control. Here’s our list of journalists who were detained or arrested. If anyone’s missing, please add them in comments.
As crews picked up after the RNC in downtown St. Paul Friday morning, a handful of local and national journalists went to City Hall and delivered 50,000 signatures pressuring St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman and the…
Media groups file “friend of court” brief in Free Press case: The Mankato Free Press earned the support of major press organizations as it fights a lawsuit leveled by Blue Earth County. The paper received a subpoena to reveal…
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