From verbal taunts to shots fired: How journalists were attacked in the U.S. in 2018
A reporter got punched in the face by a stranger in New York, and another was punched while reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in North Carolina.
These were just some of the attacks on journalists in the U.S. in 2018, all featured in a new report released Friday, on World Press Freedom Day. The shooting at the offices of The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, which left five dead, marked the first time in years that a journalist has been killed in the United States because of their reporting.
Sarah Matthews, the author of the report and a staff attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, said that The Capital Gazette shooting on June 28 “has really shaken up journalists across the country.” After the shooting at The Capital Gazette, Trump said he condemned the shooting and spoke out on behalf of reporters.
In 2017, when Trump was inaugurated and reporters were arrested while covering the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock, among other events, protests were where 31 of the 46 assaults on journalists, according to the report; the following year, only 13 of the 35 assaults on journalists occurred at protests, the report found.
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