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FBI’s Media Masquerade Rightly Infuriates Journalists

By Lena Williams, Guild-CWA :: Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but that depends on who’s doing the imitating and why. Consider, for example, the strangely bizarre case of the FBI agent who decided one spring day in 2007 to pose as a reporter for the Associated Press. To lure a 10th grade […]

FERGUSON “NO FLY” ZONE KEPT MEDIA OUT

By Lena Williams, Guild-CWA :: The Ferguson, Mo., police department, backed by federal aviation officials, lied last August when they claimed that a 37 square miles air space restriction was imposed over the city because of safety concerns after the shooting death of a black teenager by a white police officer.      Recent audio recordings […]

JOURNALISTS ASKED TO PAY EXORBITANT FEES FOR PUBLIC INFORMATION

By Lena Williams, Guild-CWA :: Local governments have found a way to cash in when it comes to circumventing the public’s right to know: charging journalists exorbitant fees to obtain public documents. From Ferguson, Mo., to Fort Lauderdale to Madison, Wis., officials are refusing to turn over public documents unless the media pay fees that […]

FBI Must Answer for Scheme Using Fake AP Story to Solve Crime

The Newspaper Guild-CWA, the News Media Guild representing AP journalists and the Seattle-based Pacific Northwest Guild are disgusted and outraged by the revelation this week that the FBI posed as The Associated Press in planting an online story to catch a teenage bomb threat suspect in 2007. Even worse, the FBI is expressing no regret […]

Ben Bradlee: The Journalist We All Aspired to Be

By Lena Williams, Guild-CWA :: For a brief, shining moment 42 years ago, I was lucky enough to enter Ben Bradlee’s orbit. And it launched my career in journalism. I was being interviewed for an internship in the Washington Post sports department when Bradlee happened by. The sports editor introduced me to the dashing executive […]

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