"With President-elect Donald J. Trump returning to the White House, media outlets large and small are taking steps to prepare for what they fear could be a legal and political onslaught against them from the new administration and Mr. Trump’s allies inside and outside the government," reports The New York Times.
Speaking to Times staff reporter David Enrich, our Publisher and Editor Alex Ip laid bare the stakes facing the only science news outlet by and for Asian Americans:
(Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times)
[Alex's] fear is that subjects of critical articles will harass the site with retaliatory litigation.
“We’ve already seen an escalating trend of journalists being targeted by both Republican and Democratic local administrations prior to the election,” Mr. Ip wrote in an email. “However, after the election, my personal judgment is that we cannot afford *not doing* prepublication review for these stories anymore, because the risk is too large, especially from far-right bad actors.”
Last November, our newsroom unanimously voted to remove our presence on Twitter, after our reporters received increasing xenophobic and racist attacks. Right now, lawyers from the University of Georgia First Amendment Law Clinic are poring over documents, photos, and manuscripts we gathered during two big investigations into potential wrongdoing by governmental agencies and industry power players in the climate and energy sectors. The stakes are high, but we are ready.
Can we count on your support to cover the second Trump administration without fear or favor?
