Reporters Committee: Huge Uptick In Attacks, Arrests On Journalists In U.S. In 2020
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deadline.comThe Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press says that attacks on journalists and arrests of reporters rose sharply last year, primarily due to assaults by police as media outlets covered Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd.RCFP, along with other media organizations, compiled the figures for an annual report analyzing data from the U.S.
Press Freedom Tracker, which launched in 2017.The report showed that there were more than 438 physical attacks on journalists during the year, a figure that is more than three times as many attacks reported for the past three years combined.
Journalists were arrested or charged 139 times, 15 times the number in 2019.The vast majority of the attacks took place at Black Lives
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