News Take: Free Press Focus: How Do We Ensure Protections for the Press After Shocking Police Raid?
In this episode of News Take: Free Press Focus, Eric Meyer, Publisher of the Marion County Record, shares the story of the day police raided the newspaper and the events leading up to it, and Gabe Rottman of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press talks about the implications for a free press when journalists’ rights are violated and the importance of a federal shield law, such as the PRESS Act, that would protect journalists’ confidential sources.