The number of journalists arrested in the U.S. last year surged, exceeding the previous two years combined. That's according to The Freedom of the Press Foundation, which keeps a running total of such incidents with its U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, a database of press freedom incidents in the U.S. In this edition of Update-1, Broadcast Podcast team member Gemma Puglisi talks with Kirstin McCudden, the vice president of editorial at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. They discuss are why more journalists were arrested in the U.S.

The National Press Club's new Press Freedom Center officially launched in late November, with the first event involving 17 members of the family of Austin Tice, the American journalist who was kidnapped while reporting in Syria on August 13, 2012. In this edition of Update-1, NPC Broadcast Podcast Team co-chair Mike Hempen talks with Bill McCarren, the center's director, and Jason Rezaian, the director of press freedom issues for The Washington Post and a consultant for the center, about how it will be used in the club's press freedom initiatives.

The journalists who were in the courtroom covering the Nuremberg Trials, sharing details about Nazi war crimes, are the focus of a new book by NPC member Noel Marie Fletcher. In this edition of Update-1, Fletcher discusses "Reporting the Nuremberg Trials: How Journalists Covered Live Nazi Trials and Executions," with Broadcast Podcast team member Tom Young. Among the topics they talk about are how the news was gathered and reported, how reporting such as event today would compare, and the well-known reporters who covered the trials.