The killing of Jeff German comes as U.S. reporters face increasing threats and violence, although not to the degree of journalists working overseas.
By James Rainey and Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles TimesClark County Public Administrator Robert"Rob" Telles appears in court, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, in Las Vegas. Telles was arrested Wednesday in the fatal stabbing of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, whose investigations of the official's work preceded his primary loss in June.
Murders of journalists connected to their work remain a rarity in the United States, especially compared with countries like Mexico, where 13 reporters have been killed since the start of the year. German’s stabbing death outside his home last week would make him the 12th journalist murdered in America in the last 30 years in connection with their work, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
“What I hear every day around the country is a significant increase in threats and in a sense of permission that people feel to attack journalists,” said Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the DART Center for Journalism & Trauma at Columbia University. “We’re seeing far more threats and far more actual violence directed at local journalists, in particular.”found assaults on journalists peaked in 2020 with 454. But attacks have continued.
The single most violent attack on journalists on American soil in memory came in 2018, when a man armed with a shotgun and smoke grenades, killing five staff members and injuring two others. “I feel like the importance of journalism is to hold the truth up to society. To hold people accountable,” said HH Hiaasen, whose father, Rob, was killed in the Capital Gazette shooting. “It’s such important work and we need it now more than ever. But the system has to be set up for people to be able to honestly and truthfully do this work without being threatened.”from the Guardian at a public event.
Soon after, police arrested John Adamson, who testified that he had been hired by a wealthy contractor to kill Bolles for writing articles that were damaging to the business interests of Kemper Marley Sr., a wealthy Arizona rancher and liquor distributor. Marley was never charged in the case. The pattern recurred in 2007, when Chauncey Bailey, editor of the Oakland Post, was gunned down on a downtown street in broad daylight in an effort to stop his coverage of the finances of a local business named Your Black Muslim Bakery. Three young men associated with the bakery were convicted in the killing.
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