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Reporting While Black: The Complexity of Covering Racial Inequality as a Black Journalist

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CNN national correspondent Sara Sidner has covered protests and civil unrest all over the world, and has in the past week been reporting on the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis for the network.

Reporters being arrested is nothing new; as in past protests, members of the press have had encounters with law enforcement. “[They] oftentimes, in these kinds of protests, don’t give a damn if you’re the press, even when you identify yourself,” she notes.

But things came to a head when her colleague, CNN reporter Omar Jimenez, as well as producer Bill Kirkos and cameraperson Leonel Mendez, were arrested and detained in the early hours of May 29.

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