Tennessee journalists have a virtual training opportunity on Wednesday on police-press interactions at protests.
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is hosting a Zoom webinar on Wednesday, Nov. 13, from 3-4 p.m. ET, in collaboration with the Tennessee Association of Broadcasters and the Tennessee Press Association, for Tennessee journalists to learn more about newly released recommendations from the Department of Justice on police-press interactions at protests, according to an email from Paul McAdoo, Local Legal Initiative Staff Attorney (Tennessee) for the Reporters Committee.
The webinar is free but registration is required to attend.
The webinar will be led by Gabe Rottman, Policy Director for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
Attorneys from the Reporters Committee, which helped coordinate input from journalists in the development of the recommendations, will discuss how this valuable guidance for law enforcement — including that journalists who are mistakenly arrested be released quickly, that journalists be exempt from curfews and dispersal orders, and on the role of press credentials — impacts the news media’s work moving forward, McAdoo said in the email.