newsgathering
Americanadjective
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Constitutionally protected newsgathering is vital to a democracy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The Journal quoted Ashok Sinha, the chief communications officer of Dow Jones, which publishes the newspaper, as saying the subpoenas "represent an attack on constitutionally protected newsgathering."
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
The case has drawn sharp criticism from press freedom advocates, civil rights groups, and major news organizations, who warn that charging a journalist for covering a protest could usher in a chilling effect on newsgathering.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026
The Fire Department continued looking for the woman downstream, sending fire trucks and using a helicopter to try to locate her, according to footage shot by newsgathering outlet OnScene.TV.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2025
But this economic principle operates with such peculiar violence in journalism that newsgathering does not attract to itself anything like the number of trained and able men which its public importance would seem to demand.
From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter
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