Emilie Raguso of the Berkeley Scanner was turned away from a press conference while other journalists were allowed to enter.
The First Amendment lost one of its most passionate champions on November 25, with the death of Rowland Rebele at the age of 93.
Nominations are now open for the First Amendment Coalition’s 2023 Free Speech & Open Government Awards.
This is FAC’s third year participating in the program, which connects journalists of color with open-government experts and resources in their state to help them sharpen their skills acquiring and using government information and data.
The fellowship program, a new state-funded initiative administered by the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, aims to address the crisis in local news by adding reporting resources in California communities.