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01/30/2022

The two-time Emmy nominee and improv veteran also played teacher Charlie Moore on 'Head of the Class.'

11/09/2021

Tom Mara, executive director of KEXP who over more than 30 years grew a volunteer-run college radio station into a global music institution that he says reaches 2 million people a week, plans to retire next year as the organization...

08/27/2021

A King County judge has ruled that Charter Amendment 29, known as "Compassion Seattle," won't go before Seattle voters in November. She said the ballot initiative would have superseded the will of the state's population.

03/03/2021

He was the last surviving original member of the group, which also featured Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. Together they helped spread the music of Jamaica worldwide.

10/17/2020

You’re getting those ballots back to us in record speed and WE LOVE IT! Our teams are out emptying boxes right now and they’ll be securely transporting those ballots back to Elections HQ.

Keep it up, King County!

06/30/2020

'The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is urging a Washington court to quash a subpoena requiring Seattle news outlets to turn over video and photographs from a May protest. Earlier this month, the Seattle Police Department served five news organizations with subpoenas commanding them to turn over all raw footage and photographs taken in a several block radius over a 90-minute period during a May 30 protest in Seattle, one of many demonstrations against police violence and racial injustice that have erupted in response to the killing of George Floyd. The police want the footage to help them find suspects involved in the torching of a police car and theft of fi****ms. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed on June 29, the Reporters Committee asks the King County Superior Court to issue an order holding that the subpoena is unenforceable. The brief argues that compelling journalists to share materials acquired from newsgathering violates the Washington shield law and the First Amendment and also creates the impression that journalists serve as an extension of law enforcement.'

RCFP’s brief opposes a subpoena that would force Seattle news outlets to turn over video, photographs of a May 30 protest.

01/19/2020

"On Jan. 19, 1966, the Georgia State House of Representatives refused to seat state representative Julian Bond despite his election the previous November. Their stated objection was his endorsement of a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee statement accusing the United States of violating international law in Vietnam. In December 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Bond’s exclusion unconstitutional, and Bond was finally sworn in the following month."

The Georgia State House of Representatives refused to seat elected state representative Julian Bond due to his public statements against the Vietnam War.

09/23/2019

"In a major blow to the Federal Communications Commission efforts to relax media ownership rules, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals today struck down a series of changes adopted by the FCC in Nov. 2017 that, among other things, abolished the newspaper-broadcast and TV-radio cross-ownership bans. It also struck down the decision to create a radio incubator program. The judges concluded the Commission “did not adequately consider the effect its sweeping rule changes will have on ownership of broadcast media by women and racial minorities.”"

In a fresh setback for the FCC’s effort to revise its media ownership regulations, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals today struck down changes adopted by the agency in November

09/17/2019

"As a journalist who has worked both inside and outside of establishment media, I see influence as embedded in a corporate media culture rather than in isolated cases of CEO dictates. It happens in little ways, such as how an interviewer frames a question, and in big ways, like the decision to exclude a topic, a person or a group of people from the airwaves."

Corporate ownership interferes with the press's core function: investigating key issues at the intersection of public need and governance.

09/07/2019

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08/20/2019

United States #48 in the 2019 World Press Freedom Index

"Press freedom has continued to decline in the second year of President Donald Trump’s presidency. Rhetorical attacks from the government and private individuals alike grew increasingly hostile, and in June they became physical when a gunman entered the Capital Gazette newsroom in Maryland, killing four journalists and one other staffer in a targeted attack on the local newspaper. Since then, President Trump has continued to declare the press as the “enemy of the American people” and “fake news” in an apparent attempt to discredit critical reporting. At least one White House correspondent has hired private security for fear of their life after receiving death threats, and newsrooms throughout the country have been plagued by bomb threats and were the recipients of other potentially dangerous packages, prompting journalism organizations to reconsider the security of their staffs in a uniquely hostile environment. The Trump administration repeatedly attempted to deny journalists access to events of public interest in 2018, breaking multiple records for the span of time without a White House press briefing, denying a CNN reporter access to an open-press White House event and even revoking reporter Jim Acosta’s press pass, which was only restored by court order. Meanwhile, the nation still waits for the Trump administration to hold the Saudi authorities responsible for the murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi, who was brutally killed in Saudi Arabia’s Turkish consulate in October."

Visit the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker Press freedom has continued to decline in the second year of President Donald Trump’s presidency. Rhetorical attacks from the government and private individuals alike grew increasingly hostile, and in June they became physical when a gunman entered the Capital ...