NJ police to journalists: Papers please

Dear Friend of Press Freedom: Who gets to decide who’s a journalist? Police in New Jersey say it’s up to them. We disagree. Read on for more on that, plus the need for surveillance reform in light of President Donald Trump’s pick for intelligence chief, and what the murder of “60 Minutes” says about the Ellisons’ attempts to buy CNN parent company Warner Bros. NJ police to journalists: Papers please This week, our U.S. Press Freedom Tracker has been working to verify at least 40 assaults by federal and local law enforcement on journalists near an immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey known as Delaney Hall, where reporters are covering an ongoing hunger strike by detainees and related protests. As Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Deputy Director of Advocacy Adam Rose wr…