Lemon Defends Calling Out White Male Extremists

CNN Applauded for Calling Racism What It Is

‘Birthright’ Protected Chinese Americans, Blacks

Shaun King Plans to Revive the North Star

Ebony Back on Schedule With Payments to Writers

Latinos in Heated Contrast on Immigration

High Schoolers Ready for Hands-On Work at CBS

Leon Clark Promoted to G.M. of San Diego Station

Merck Ends Deal to Supply Vaccine to African Kids

Deggans Named Chair of Peabody Award Jurors

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“I said that the biggest terror threat in this country comes from radicals on the far right, primarily white men. That angered some people,” CNN’s Don Lemon said. (video)

Lemon Defends Calling Out White Male Extremists

“Tonight CNN’s Don Lemon responded to the outrage over comments he made Monday night,” Josh Feldman reported Wednesday for Mediaite.

“Lemon said the following to Chris Cuomo after his colleague covered the recent shooting of two black [people] at a Kentucky Kroger:

“ ‘I keep trying to point out to people not to demonize any one group or any one ethnicity, but we keep thinking that the biggest terror threat is something else. Some people who are marching towards the border like it’s imminent. And the last they did this, a couple of hundred people came and they, you know, most of them didn’t get into the country.

“Most of them… got tuckered out before they even made [it] to the border. So we have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them. There is no travel ban on them. There is no ban on — you know, they had the Muslim ban, there is no “white guy ban.” So what do we do about that?’

“After getting a lot of blowback and criticism, Lemon tonight — while talking about right-wing extremist threats — said, ‘I made some comments about that in a conversation with Chris. I said that the biggest terror threat in this country comes from radicals on the far right, primarily white men.

“That angered some people.’

“He continued:

“ ‘But let’s put emotion aside and look at the cold hard facts. The evidence is overwhelming. A recent report from the Government Accountability Office shows that. Even though more people died in attacks connected to Islamic extremists, the vast majority of deadly attacks in this country from 2001 to 2016 were carried out by far-right violent extremists.’ . . .”

• Tamar Auber, Mediaite: Dan Abrams Calls Out Geraldo Rivera For MAGA Bomber Conspiracy: ‘What Are You Doing??‘
• Joe Concha, the Hill: Fox’s Jarrett rips CNN’s Lemon as ‘a racist, hypocrite and idiot all rolled into one’
• Editorial, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Small but real steps: Time for reason on gun safety
• Editorial, Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times: Stand united against hate
• Matt Ford, New Republic: America’s First ‘Fake News’ Crisis: When the Ku Klux Klan terrorized the South during Reconstruction, many people denied that the group even existed.
• Emily Jane Fox, Vanity Fair: Michael Cohen Says Trump Repeatedly Used Racist Language Before His Presidency
• Phillip Morris, Plain Dealer, Cleveland: How many more unarmed church massacres must we endure?
• Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald: Synagogue shooting drags us closer to unimaginable disaster
• Jim Rutenberg, New York Times: You Don’t Need to Go to the Dark Web to Find Hateful Conspiracy Theories
• Sarah Taylor, the Blaze: Black conservative activists demand CNN discuss Don Lemon’s racial remarks: ‘This cannot stand’

On CNN’s “The Lead” on Friday, host Jake Tapper and panelists discuss, “Will voters care about new claims Trump used racist language?”

CNN Applauded for Calling Racism What It Is

“The CNN headline regarding a new anti-immigration ad posted on President Trump’s Twitter account doesn’t sit above an opinion piece,” Erik Wemple wrote Thursday for the Washington Post.

“It’s a news story, and the byline belongs to Stephen Collinson, who is a reporter for the network who covers the White House and politics. But it’s not every day that such a mainstream news outlet adorns a news story with this sort of headline: ‘Trump shocks with racist new ad days before midterms.’

“Then again, it’s not every day, of course, that a U.S. president promotes such clear-cut racism in pursuit of political gains — though, to be honest, it has become more routine recently. This particular ad dispenses with whatever restraint Trump may have exercised with his divisive immigration rhetoric. It features footage of Luis Bracamontes, a Mexican citizen who entered the United States illegally more than once and was convicted of killing two law enforcement officers in Northern California. As he received his verdict this year, Bracamontes vowed to ‘kill more cops soon.’ . . .”

In addition to the racism, “While Trump pilloried Democrats as being responsible for Luis Bracamontes’ release and illegal re-entry into the United States, court records show his case was handled primarily by Republicans. And at least one of his deportations occurred during the Bush administration,” Rachel Leingang, Robert Anglen, Perry Vandell and Uriel J. Garcia reported Friday for the Arizona Republic.

Wemple continued, “In his tweet promoting the video ad, Trump writes, ‘It is outrageous what the Democrats are doing to our Country. Vote Republican now!’ As the ad cycles through Bracamontes’s chilling threats in the courtroom, a banner reads, ‘DEMOCRATS LET HIM INTO OUR COUNTRY.’ The focus then switches to footage of a migrant caravan overwhelming fences at a checkpoint, and then to a Fox News clip in which a migrant tells a translator that he plans on seeking a pardon for the ‘felony he committed … attempted murder.’ Again, the multitudes splash across the screen, with this banner, ‘WHO ELSE WOULD DEMOCRATS LET IN?’

“So the CNN headline checks out: The video stigmatizes a large group of people of color as criminals — killers bent on coming in and killing the law-abiding residents of the United States. It’s another in the long list of shocking-but-not-surprising developments in the Trump presidency. This is Trump’s remarks about Mexico’s ‘rapists’ in video format. . . .”

• Justin Anderson, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting: Blaming ‘Both Sides’ for Hate Plays Into Hands of Right-Wing Media
• Rekha Basu, Des Moines Register: Even national Republicans are calling out Steve King. Aren’t voters tired of his doublespeak?
• AJ Bauer and Anthony Nadler, Columbia Journalism Review: Conservatives trust conservative media. Here’s why.
• Charles M. Blow, New York Times: Trump’s Potent Toxicity
• Jelani Cobb, New Yorker: From Charleston to Pittsburgh, an Arc of Premeditated American Tragedy
• Steve Cortes, Chicago Sun-Times: Trump’s American ‘nationalism’ includes all colors and creeds
• Mary C. Curtis, Roll Call: The Devil on Trump’s Shoulder and in the Country’s Ear
• Natasha Lennard, the Intercept: After Last Week, There’s No Hope That the Media Will Ever Abandon False Equivalencies With the Far Right

‘Birthright’ Protected Chinese Americans, Blacks

Randall Yip of AsAmNews posted a background piece Wednesday explaining the role that the case of a Chinese American played in affirming birthright citizenship. The term applies to a provision in the 14th Amendment, passed in 1868, that President Trump said Monday he can repeal by executive order.

” ‘We are not fooled,’ said Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance Executive Director, Alvina Yeh. ‘We will continue defending the 14th Amendment as the Supreme Court did in 1898, when White nationalists tried to revoke 14th amendment rights for Chinese people.‘

“Prior to 1898, birthright citizenship, embedded in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, was applied to those of European descent,” the story continued.

The item also said, “It became the law of the land in the case involving Wong Kim Ark, who was born in San Francisco and whose parents were non-citizens living and working in the U.S.

“At the age of 18 he visited China, the land of his parents, and upon his return was refused entrance because officials said he was not a U.S. citizen.

“Wong was forced to wait on a ship in San Francisco harbor for months as his attorney pursued his case for citizenship. He was a test case, selected by the Department of Justice in an attempt to prove that people of Chinese descent weren’t citizens.

“His case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled on behalf of the Chinese American in 1898. . . . ”

On Tuesday, Solomon Jones of philly.com further explained, “The 14th Amendment was meant to alleviate some of the legal discrimination that blacks faced, by providing freed slaves with citizenship, due process, and equal treatment.

“Now the president seeks to ignore that very amendment while stripping away the rights of immigrants.

“But if he’s allowed to do so, who’s next? Will he decide that Jews are no longer in vogue? Will he decide that Native Americans must be eradicated? Will he decide that Muslims can no longer be Americans, or that men can subjugate women? . . .”

The Seattle Times editorialized more broadly Wednesday:  “In times of uncertainty — including periods with high immigration and economic transitions — we should look for ways to uphold, not attack, the Constitution and America’s lasting values of compassion and strength through diversity. . . .”

• NPR “Weekend Edition”: The 14th Amendment’s Historical Significance

Shaun King Plans to Revive the North Star

Activist journalist Shaun King, now writing for the Intercept, announced Thursday on medium.com, “171 years after it first launched, with the blessing and permission of the family of Frederick Douglass, I am relaunching The North Star alongside my friend and brother, Ben Dixon.

“For the next 15 days, at BuildingTheNorthStar.com  —  we are building our launch team and hope to have at least 100,000 of you join us from all over the world. We won’t be able to do it without you! Again, this team will only last for the next 15 days.

“That’s because on Thursday, November 15th, hopefully with you on board and spreading the word, we are then launching our public membership drive. Our goal is to have 25,000 members before 2018 ends. I know we can do that.

“While The North Star was originally a print newspaper, we will be launching a news app, a full news website, a collection of podcasts, and an online nightly news broadcast. We’re not just here to change the news — we aim to change the world. . . .”

Unconventional as that business plan might sound, Samir “Mr. Magazine™” Husni, director, professor and Hederman Lecturer at the Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi, told Journal-isms Friday that crowdsourcing has gained credibility as a fundraising source for media startups.

“Crowdsourced media outlets have been created using crowdsourced funding for years now. I know of several magazines launched that way. Just visit any of the fundraising sites and you will see a lot of media related requests…,” Husni said by email. “An easier way to raise money than the traditional 3 Fs (family, friends, and fools).”

King did not respond to questions about how much money he needs to raise to feel secure, or whether he plans to continue writing for the Intercept.

Kenneth B. Morris Jr., great-great-great grandson of Douglass and great-great-grandson of Booker T. Washington, endorsed the project in a tweet Thursday. “#FrederickDouglass was a radical reformer. He published The North Star to give enslaved ppl a voice and to hold a hypocritical Christian nation accountable for the atrocities committed on its blood-drenched soil. We have to tell our own stories. I just joined the team. Won’t you?”

King retweeted the comment, writing at 5:16 p.m. that day, “40,053 of you have now signed up today to help us build The North Star!!”

Ebony Back on Schedule With Payments to Writers

The parent company of Ebony magazine, which missed a Sept. 30 court-ordered deadline to pay installments of its debts to freelance writers, is caught up, Larry Goldbetter, president of the National Writers Union, told Journal-isms on Friday.

“It appears that all of the Q3 checks, with the exception of Rashod Ollison’s and one going to UK have been received and deposited,” Goldbetter said by email. Ollison, music writer for the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., died at 41 on Oct. 17.

The union went to Cook County, Ill., Circuit Court on Oct. 25 for an order forcing Ebony Media Operations, LLC, and CVG Group, LLC, to pay the 45 freelancers their agreed-upon installments. Later that day, Michael Gibson, CEO of the investment firm CVG Group, messaged Journal-isms that “all past payments were mailed to [writers] today.”

Goldbetter said Friday, “We will withdraw the filing after we can account for every check.”

Latinos in Heated Contrast on Immigration

“The teenager rose, somewhat haltingly, to tell her story,” Daniel Malloy wrote Nov. 1 for ozy.com. “The room full of Latinx families in the Riverside Church, a soaring Manhattan structure that has served as a sanctuary for so many, fell silent.

“ ‘I was brought here at the age of 4,’ she said, as a few heads bobbed along. She came to the U.S. illegally, from Mexico, with her mother. She remembers a lot of walking and a lot of confusion. Nine months ago, she said, her father died. Her social studies teacher in the Bronx, Justis Lopez, rose to complete the story, noting how the teen’s father avoided seeing a doctor because of his immigration status. ‘He passed away because he was afraid,’ Lopez said.

“For the third episode of OZY’s innovative town hall series Take On America, we gathered 100 Latinx people together in New York to go deep on questions of faith, identity and politics. By no means is this a bloc vote, and in the discussion moderated by OZY co-founder Carlos Watson, opinions varied widely.

“Nowhere was the contrast more heated than on the question of immigration, with Donald Trump and an advancing caravan of migrants hovering over American politics as the midterm elections draw near. . . .”

• Sara Aridi, “Lens” blog, New York Times: One Family’s Story of Deportation to Mexico
• Editorial, Chicago Tribune: Keep calm about the caravan
• Jean Guerrero, Columbia Journalism Review: Latino voter apathy reflects disconnected media
• Pilar Marrero, Latino Rebels: LA Times Publishes Completely Different Political Endorsements in English and Spanish
• Lee Moran, HuffPost: ‘The Daily Show’ Turns Fox News Migrant Caravan Coverage Into One Scary Movie
• Ruben Navarrette Jr., Washington Post Writers Group: Texas Senate race struggles with identity crisis
• Asawin Suebsaeng and Pilar Melendez, Daily Beast: Trump-Loving Evangelical Leaders Silent as He Bashes Migrants
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High Schoolers Ready for Hands-On Work at CBS

“CBS has a unique way of mentoring young TV news hopefuls, and increasing diversity in its newsroom at the same time. Its Eye on the Future program features high school students from what CBS calls underserved communities — juniors and seniors getting hands-on experience in the newsroom. Ten students are taking part this year, across eight Saturdays in the fall,” Michael Malone wrote Oct. 26 for Broadcasting & Cable.

“The volunteers are ‘entry level to executives,’ said Kim Godwin, VP of news and executive director of diversity initiatives and staff development. ‘What’s so exciting about the program is, it gets people interested in our profession.’ . . .”

Malone also wrote, “Other cornerstones in the CBS News learning process are a Fellowship program that sees six students get a fully paid internship, including housing, for the summer, and the Wisdom Series, where speakers from the CBS News ranks pass along what they’ve learned in their years in the business. A half dozen of the Fellowship interns are now on staff, said Godwin.

“Recent speakers in Wisdom Series include Jane Pauley, CBS Sunday Morning anchor, and Major Garrett, CBS News chief White House correspondent, sharing about his book Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride. . . .”

• CBS News: “Eye On the Future”: Student journalists report on LGBTQ sex ed and cyberbullying (Dec. 22, 2017)

Leon Clark Promoted to G.M. of San Diego Station

Leon Clark, one of the few African American general managers of a commercial television station, is being promoted.

He is moving from vice president and general manager for KGUN and KWBA, E.W. Scripps Co. television stations in Tucson, Ariz. (Market 71), to vice president and general manager of KGTV in San Diego, Calif. (Market 28).

The change is effective Nov. 19, Scripps announced on Tuesday.

The new position will allow Clark,  a southern California native, to return  San Diego, where he worked for CBS in the late 2000s, the announcement said.

Merck Ends Deal to Supply Vaccine to African Kids

“The pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. Inc. is ending a long-term agreement to supply a lifesaving vaccine for children in West Africa,” Michaeleen Doucleff reported Thursday for NPR.

“At the same time, the company has started sending the vaccine to China, where it will likely be sold for a much higher price.

“The vaccine is for a deadly form of diarrhea, called rotavirus, which kills about 200,000 young children and babies each year.

“Merck’s decision means it will fall short of its commitment to supply its rotavirus vaccine, RotaTeq, to four low-income countries in 2018 and 2019, according to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. By 2020, the company will completely stop delivering its vaccine.

” ‘This was difficult decision for us, which did not come lightly,’ Merck wrote to NPR in an email. ‘We would like to express our deepest regret to all of the parties involved and have offered to assist and work with UNICEF, Gavi and affected countries through the transition to alternative images [versions] of rotavirus vaccines,’ the email added. . . .

“As a result of Merck’s decision, more than a half-million children in West Africa may not receive the vaccine in 2018 and 2019, Gavi told NPR in an email.

“And more than 2 million may go without the vaccination in 2020. . . .”

Deggans Named Chair of Peabody Award Jurors

Eric Deggans, television critic for NPR, will chair the board of jurors of the George Foster Peabody Awards, the organization announced Thursday. The Peabodys honor excellence in broadcasting.

Deggans, who was appointed to the board in 2013, is the first African American to hold the position.

Deggans became NPR’s first television critic that same year after nearly 18 years critiquing television, media, music and pop culture at the Tampa Bay Times.

Short Takes

• “The Poynter Institute and the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) are pleased to announce the 2018 class for the Poynter-NABJ Leadership Academy for Diversity in Digital Media, a transformative leadership program for journalists of color,” the organizations said Wednesday. “The 25 participants, chosen from a pool of 139 applicants, are emerging leaders in digital media who have demonstrated an aptitude for leadership . . . . “
• Last week, network-news watcher Andrew Tyndall noted that just “since the start of the month of October, there have been a dozen examples of [NBC] Nightly News segments that explicitly feature a racial angle, either a tribute to black pride or, more often, observing the continued disadvantages that African-Americans face in everyday life merely by dint of their race.” On Thursday, anchor Lester Holt, the first African American in that role, introduced another: When Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, a black doctor, noticed a fellow Delta Airlines passenger in distress, “she stepped in to help. After Stanford showed a flight attendant her medical license, a second flight attendant asked if the license was really hers. . . .,” according to a story summary.
• Under the headline “Will Time Ever Be Up For Abusive Men In Hip-Hop?,” Sylvia Obell wrote Wednesday for BuzzFeed, “It’s this culture of silence that makes it possible for artists to get away with assaulting women, even when there’s video evidence of violent behavior, resulting in intricate, messy, and downright dumbfounding situations. . . .”
• ” ‘The View’ is adding Republican strategist Ana Navarro as a guest co-host one day a week, Variety has learned,” Ramin Setoodeh reported Friday for Variety. “Navarro will fill in on ‘The View’ every Friday. . . .”

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  James Giago Davies, an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, is questioning as unscientific a Lakota tradition holding that ancient members of the tribe emerged from underground in Wind Cave in South Dakota. “The science says we are all from Africa, every single ethnic group living on this planet, we were all once Black Africans,” Davies wrote Wednesday for Native Sun News. “Seventy-five thousand years ago we walked out of Africa, our Lakota ancestors never walked up out of Wind Cave. That doesn’t mean that Wind Cave does not have deep spiritual and cultural significance for all Lakota. It does, and because of that, it is as sacred as if we had. . . .”

• In Houston, “Former KRIV reporter Angela Chen will join KESQ, the Gulf California Broadcast Company-owned ABC affiliate in Palm Springs [,Calif.], as the newest morning anchor. . . .,” Stephanie Tsoflias Siegel reported Wednesday for TVSpy.
• In Baltimore, a “meteorologist for WBFF Fox 45 is recovering after he collapsed on air Thursday afternoon, according to the station,” Sarah Meehan reported for the Baltimore Sun. “Chief meteorologist Vytas Reid was rattling off the region’s temperatures Thursday when he fell midbroadcast. The station said he was ‘OK’ in a Facebook post Thursday, with a picture of Reid holding a Gatorade bottle. . . .”
• “Viola Davis and Stephen Curry have signed on as executive producers of ‘Emanuel,’ a documentary about the 2015 mass murder of black churchgoers by a white supremacist” in Charleston, S.C., Todd Spangler reported Thursday for Variety. He also wrote, “The 75-minute film premiered at Geena Davis’ 2018 Bentonville Film Festival in May, where it won the jury prize award for documentary, and screened at the Heartland International Film Festival in October, where it was the audience-award winner. It will screen at the DOC NYC festival, which runs Nov. 14-15.” However, the ” ‘Emanuel’ team is looking for a distribution partner for the film, which is a big reason Davis and Curry came on board . . .”
• “‘Shut Up and Dribble’, a three-part Showtime documentary series executive produced by LeBron James, debuts Saturday,” Eric Deggans reported Friday for NPR. “It rebukes those who criticize outspoken athletes by showing how basketball stars speaking up has helped improve the NBA and America itself.” Former ESPN anchor Jemele Hill wrote and narrates the documentary. Jemele Hill interview  The Undefeated
• ” Today we announce an important new Washington Post initiative called the Press Freedom Partnership,” (video) Washington Post Publisher and CEO Fred Ryan said Thursday to the International Women’s Media Foundation, discussing slain Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi. “Working with the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, Reporters Without Borders, and other interested groups, we are making a major global commitment to increase awareness of the importance of an independent press. We are devoting significant and ongoing resources … deploying our marketing and advertising capabilities … and using the reach of the Washington Post’s platforms to champion the journalists who take risks every day to expose the truth. . . .”

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  “Fernando Díaz is leaving the San Francisco Chronicle,” Veronica Villafañe reported Tuesday for her Media Moves site. “He’s heading back to the Windy City and returning to The Chicago Reporter to become Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of the investigative monthly periodical. Díaz, who joined the Chronicle as Managing Editor, Digital in February 2017, will leave his current post November 8. He starts in Chicago on November 19.”

• “A Chicago alderman has proposed a sweeping overhaul of the way the city punishes drivers who can’t afford to pay tickets, calling for an end to late penalties that double the underlying fines and contribute to thousands of bankruptcies filed here each year,” Melissa Sanchez of ProPublica and Elliott Ramos of WBEZ reported Wednesday. Alderman Gilbert Villegas “said his proposals — which must be approved by the finance committee before going to the full City Council — were prompted by a ProPublica Illinois investigation in February that showed that unpaid tickets were pushing thousands of mostly black Chicago motorists into bankruptcy. . . .”
• “In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and comedian Dave Chappelle (video), [Jon] Stewart essentially credited President Trump for strategically manipulating the U.S. media,” Erik Wemple wrote Wednesday for the Washington Post. “ ‘I think the journalists have taken it personally,’ said Stewart of Trump’s endless attacks on journalism over the past few years. ‘They’re personally wounded and offended by this man. . . . And now he’s changed the conversation to not that his policies are silly or not working or any of those other things. It’s all about the fight.’ . . .”
• . . . Erik Wemple responded to Jon Stewart’s argument (see above) by saying, “He attempts a distinction between Trump’s ‘policies’ and his attacks on the media, when in fact his attacks on the media are his most consistent policy. . . .” Eric Levitz of New York magazine likewise disagrees.
• Borderzine, the University of Texas at El Paso’s bilingual online magazine, said Tuesday it was beginning a major dollar-match funding campaign “to raise more than $100,000 for training and placement of job-ready bilingual student journalists who report on the life and culture of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. . . .”
• “Kristian Kabuay remembers being just 8 years old when he first became curious about alphabets, language and identity,” Tammy Danan reported Monday for ozy.com, as Filipino American History Month came to a close. “Over the years, that curiosity would lead him on an exploration of  calligraphy, graffiti, indigenous cultures and Asian writing systems, helping him evolve into a tireless advocate for reviving a dying language.” Danan also wrote, “Kabuay is the Filipino-American artist behind Surat magazine, a printed periodical with content written exclusively in Baybayin, an ancient script used primarily by the native Tagalogs. . .  . Until he sees more practitioners and advocates of the script — currently used by only one tribe in the Philippines — Kabuay will continue his efforts to ‘start a cultural renaissance.’ . . .”

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  In Dallas/Fort Worth, “Things moved quickly for Alisha Laventure after she joined WFAA/Channel 8 in July 2016 — and appear to have continued to move quickly, as she is gone from the station a little more than two years later,” Robert Philpot reported Tuesday for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He also wrote, “Laventure joined WFAA as a weekend-morning anchor in 2016, but less than a month after her arrival, she was part of an anchor shuffle that led to her co-anchoring the 4 p.m. newscast and anchoring the noon newscast. . . .”

• Harry Boomer, WOIO-TV’s anchor and reporter and the host of WUAB 43 Forum, was to be inducted Nov. 1 into the Press Club of Cleveland’s Journalism Hall of Fame.
• “At least nine journalists suffered physical or verbal aggression after the results from the Brazilian presidential election were announced” on Oct. 28, “according to the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji),” Alessandra Monnerat and Carolina de Assis reported Wednesday for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. “In seven cases, the violence was carried out by supporters of President-elect Jair Bolsonaro of the Social Liberal Party (PSL, for its acronym in Portuguese), according to the organization. . . .”
• “Gunmen believed to be members of the Al-Shabaab terror group have shot dead a Somali radio journalist during afternoon prayers at a mosque,” the Centre for African Journalists (CAJ) News Africa, a South Africa-based newswire and press release distributor, reported Thursday. “It is believed the journalist, Abdullahi Mire Hashi, has been murdered outside the capital Mogadishu as a protest by the Islamist group against a lack of coverage by the deceased’s station. The station, Darul Sunnah, focuses on religious programming. . . .”

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