Seizing a reporter’s records is troubling; we need to know more
News Media for Open Government, a coalition of leading news media organizations defending newsgathering and press freedoms, issued the following statement regarding the disclosure last week that a reporter’s records were seized in an investigation into unauthorized disclosures. News Media for Open Government, a coalition of news media associations defending newsgathering and press freedoms, is deeply troubled by the government’s actions to seize records of a journalist. We respect the government must at times keep information from the public in the interests of national security, including to protect sources and methods or to prevent disclosure of the existence of an [More]