EXCLUSIVE: US – One year after shooting in his newsroom, editor of Capital Gazette reflects on press freedom

NewsOn the one year anniversary of the June 28 shooting at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Capital Gazette are publishing an exclusive op-ed by the newspaper’s editor Rick Hutzell reflecting on press freedom in the year since the tragedy. The shooting took the lives of five newspaper staff, making it the deadliest targeted attack on journalists in United States history and contributing to the nation's drop in ranking to 48th out of 180 countries in our 2019 World Press Freedom Index. Since that day last year, RSF’s data shows 51 journalists…

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