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Anti-immigration-enforcement thugs assaulted independent journalist Nick Sortor in New Orleans on Saturday night during a protest at a federal building. The violent assault on the journalist happened after Sortor dared to ask one of the speakers why she thinks the National Guard is racist — a statement she made on the stage.

Independent journalist Nick Sortor claimed victory after the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office dropped disorderly conduct charges filed against him on October 2 as he covered the ongoing attack on ICE agents and facilities in Portland, Oregon. In a random act of law enforcement, the DA announced they would be pursuing charges against the two men who were allegedly attacking Sortor outside the ICE facility.

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard accused Washington Post reporter Ellen Nakashima on Thursday of harassing members her staff.

The Gridiron Club’s annual dinner skipped making a toast to the current president, breaking a more than 100-year tradition, and instead made a toast to the First Amendment, according to several reports.

Haitian gangsters opened fire on a government press conference at Haiti’s largest public hospital on Tuesday, killing two journalists and a police officer. The Viv Ansanm gang said it committed the atrocity because it controls that portion of Port-au-Prince, and did not give the hospital permission to resume operations.

President-elect Donald Trump fought the establishment media and won during his 2024 campaign. Now his return to the White House draws closer and already legacy journalists are fearful given his combative nature and refusal to be intimidated, a report Monday details.

Many social media users — including journalists and academics — are celebrating the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday, implying that he got what he deserved.

On Monday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” NPR Political Correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben said that “we have weeks until Election Day, and violence can have terrifying knock-on effects.” And cited as an example, “after the Trump assassination attempt in Butler, the

Pro-abortion Vice President Kamala Harris claimed that former President Donald Trump intends to jail journalists he disagrees with if he is elected in November — ignoring her own record of using her office as California attorney general to go after pro-life journalist David Daleiden for releasing undercover videos exposing the abortion industry’s fetal body parts practices.

Democratic National Convention (DNC) officials will not guarantee journalists stepping to the restroom Thursday night will be readmitted into the designated press area, a reporter from the Associated Press said.

President Joe Biden roasted the New York Times (NYT) after the outlet issued a statement claiming he was “actively and effectively” dodging questions from the press.

Authorities in Mexico are investigating the killing of a photographer in the border city of Juarez. The killing marks the ninth killing of its kind as human rights groups continue to label Mexico as one of the deadliest places for news workers in the world.

The owner of a Mexican news outlet remains behind bars awaiting trial for her alleged role in the kidnapping by cartel gunmen of a journalist from another outlet.

The Chinese government announced on Wednesday that it has taken “appropriate” measures in retaliation for India refusing to grant visas to Chinese reporters.

White House reporters assigned to President Joe Biden’s travels in Japan and Australia may have lost money because he chose to cancel the final part of the trip, according to a report.

The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) approved a project spearheaded by the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation to place a memorial to commemorate fallen journalists on the National Mall.

Pro-lifers say the new guidelines “demonstrate even further the extent of the media’s bias in favor of abortion.”

Instead of asking questions about the case, a reporter asked about Trump’s supposed “normalization of violence against journalists.”

The change comes after Democrats pushed the term “pregnant people,” only to despair the “loss of women’s rights” after Roe was overturned.

“The Russians were hunting us down. They had a list of names, including ours,” said AP reporters of their escape from besieged Mariupol.

A British news team was shot at while filming near Kyiv (Kiev) on Monday, with one cameraman’s body armour absorbing two bullets and chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay injured.

The Taliban terrorist group is reportedly holding two foreign journalists and locals working with them in Afghanistan, according to VOA.

Two Afghan journalists suffered a severe beating and were detained by the Taliban for covering a protest in Kabul, according to Agence-France Presse (AFP).

Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe (RFE) confirmed on Friday that over a hundred of their staffers were left behind in Afghanistan during President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal. Adding family members means a total of over 500 people need rescue.

Taliban terrorists announced Sunday that their leaders would organize a “committee” to “address media problems in Kabul,” an apparent response to widespread evidence of violence and persecution of journalists following the Taliban’s takeover of the country.

A female Afghan journalist denounced Thursday that, despite assurances to the international community that they would allow women to work, Taliban jihadists are banning women from leaving their homes in Kabul and personally banned her from doing her job.

The Taliban, now in near-total control of the country, are going door to door in newly conquered Kabul searching for journalists and political opponents, according to multiple outlets on the ground.

Chinese citizens reportedly harassed foreign journalists on the streets of Zhengzhou over the weekend while covering the central Chinese city’s recent flooding, the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported on Monday.

Journalist Jojje Olsson told Breitbart London that threats from the Chinese embassy in Sweden will not deter him reporting on the CCP.

A small bomb exploded outside the offices of three newspapers in Athens, the building having been vandalised the year before by far-leftists.

Editors at France’s public broadcaster France Télévisions will be offered a financial bonus to talk more on-air about European subjects after being accused of offering a lack of European Union coverage.

The Department of Equal Opportunities at the Italian Prime Minister’s Office has pledged nearly €78,000 to programmes that include teaching journalists politically correct language on migration and LGBT issues.

A style guide released by the Trans Journalists Association advises journalists to avoid common phrases such as “biological gender” or “opposite sex” in the name of inclusivity, urges them to generally avoid “narratives of detransition,” and encourages them to describe critical feminists as “transphobic” and “anti-trans.”

Dr. Nicole Saphier said it was unreasonable to make economic reopening contingent on development of a vaccine for the coronavirus.

French police arrested a journalist in Paris aboard the Eurostar train from London after the man exhibited erratic behaviour and threatened officers with scissors.

Chinese media outlets import numerous journalists into the United States via the H-1B program, usually at very low salaries.