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National Press Club alarmed by press conditions in Turkey
The National Press Club on Tuesday voiced alarm over deteriorating press freedom conditions in Turkey, where authorities moved this week to detain a prominent opposition newspaper editor and at least a dozen other media figures. Murat Sabuncu, the editor-in-chief of the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, Turkey's oldest secularist newspaper, and a number of other journalists and news executives were rounded up in police raids Monday morning, according to news reports. The Istanbul prosecutor's office said the detained journalists support Kurdish militants and the Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen…
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National Press Club concerned about charges against filmmakers
National Press Club President Thomas Burr expressed concern Monday about reports that independent filmmakers have been arrested for documenting environmentalists’ protests of oil pipelines across four states. Filmmakers Deia Schlosberg and Lindsey Goodwin-Grayzel and cameraman Carl Davis, who were documenting protests, were arrested and charged with felonies, including conspiracy and burglary, according to news reports. Schlosberg was arrested in North Dakota and faces charges of second-degree burglary, trespassing, criminal sabotage, and "assemblage of saboteurs," the filmmaker told the…
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National Press Club President Thomas Burr criticizes Trump campaign for 'journalist intimidation'
For months The National Press Club has repeatedly expressed concern for U.S. Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump's treatment of our colleagues reporting on the campaign. After lifting an ill-advised access ban on colleagues who wished to cover Mr. Trump during the primaries, as the Republican nominee he's backsliding into ugly territory. Following a series of stories from a range of news organizations detailing sexual allegations against him, he's attacked our colleagues either through legal or rhetorical intimidation. The anti-press campaign that he's taken up from the stump…
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National Press Club encouraged by end to Trump's media blacklist
National Press Club President Thomas Burr welcomed reports Wednesday that Donald Trump's campaign has ended its blacklist of certain news organizations, though Burr noted the ban should have never existed in the first place and its removal was long overdue. For almost a year, the Republican presidential nominee's campaign has blocked journalists from several major news outlets from receiving credentials to cover Trump events. The affected outlets have included the Washington Post, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Politico and the Des Moines Register. Many of the news organizations were still able…
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National Press Club expresses concern for American held in Turkey
The National Press Club expressed concern Thursday for the well-being of an American freelance journalist who has reportedly been detained for more than three weeks in a Turkish jail. The reporter, Lindsey Snell, has worked for news organizations such as MSNBC, Yahoo News, ABC News and Vocativ, according to her social media accounts and news reports. Snell was detained Aug. 7 after crossing from Syria into Turkey and has been charged by Turkish authorities with violating a war zone, the State Department has confirmed. “We are deeply concerned about Lindsey Snell, and we will watch carefully…
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National Press Club Expresses Concern for American Held in Turkey
The National Press Club expressed concern Thursday for the well-being of an American freelance journalist who has reportedly been detained for more than three weeks in a Turkish jail. The reporter, Lindsey Snell, has worked for news organizations such as MSNBC, Yahoo News, ABC News and Vocativ, according to her social media accounts and news reports. Snell was detained Aug. 7 after crossing from Syria into Turkey and has been charged with violating a war zone, the State Department has confirmed. “We are deeply concerned about Lindsey Snell, and we will watch carefully to see that Turkey…
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National Press Club alarmed by Turkey's purge of journalists
The National Press Club on Tuesday voiced alarm that the Turkish government was moving to arrest dozens of journalists following the recent attempted military coup. Official Turkish news agencies report that detention warrants have been issued for 42 journalists, with five journalists already detained for questioning. A number of news outlets have also been shuttered in the days since the failed coup that sought to topple President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Some of the detained journalists work for pro-Kurdish news outlets. Others with facing arrest warrants worked for news organizations…
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National Press Club wants justice after killing of journalist in Ukraine
The National Press Club urged Ukrainian authorities to swiftly solve Wednesday’s murder of a prominent journalist in that country. Pavel Sheremet, 44, was killed by a car bomb in Kiev as he prepared to head to the Vesti radio station, where he was to have anchored his morning talk show, according to news accounts. Sheremet also worked for Ukrainska Pravda, the nation’s top online news web site. A possible motive for his killing was not immediately clear. He had irked authorities in his native Belarus and in Russia before coming to Ukraine in 2014 to work. “In the former Soviet states, it is…
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National Press Club honors two photographers with Press Freedom Awards
The National Press Club is honoring two photographers, one of them American and the other Egyptian, with its annual Press Freedom Award, the Club announced Monday. The winners of the 2016 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award are Tim Tai, a U.S. student photographer who stood up last fall to an angry crowd at the University of Missouri, and Mahmoud Abou Zeid, alias Shawkan, an Egyptian photographer who has been jailed since 2013. Each year, the Club honors through its Aubuchon award people who embody the heart of journalism: the courage to report what some don’t want to hear and to do so even in…
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Jailing of press group's rep in Turkey alarms National Press Club
National Press Club leaders expressed concern Monday about the reported arrest of a press freedom group’s representative in Turkey. Reporters Without Borders, an independent advocate for journalists worldwide, reported Monday that a Turkish court had ordered pre-trial detention for Erol Onderoglu, the group’s representative in Turkey for the last two decades, as well as two colleagues. The men have been charged with “terrorist propaganda” for taking part in a campaign of solidarity with the Kurdish daily Özgür Gündem. Onderoglu was one of several intellectuals in Turkey who have served…
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