Camerapersons and reporters are among the most affected by the pandemic in India. India has ordered its people to stay at home, shut businesses and suspended all transport in what is the world's most grinding lockdown to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.

When in 1854 Mary Ann Shadd Cary debuted her news weekly, The Provincial Freeman, she was the first black woman to publish a newspaper. That was not an easy milestone to achieve: She had to battle to get her ideas into print. For a start, she migrated to Canada West (today’s Ontario) to avoid United States laws that suppressed independent black activism. From there, she built a team and raised funds.

On May 31, Mehtap Yılmaz and her crew were covering demonstrators at the middle entrance to St. John’s Church, in Lafayette Square near the White House, when police suddenly charged at them.

Protests that began in Minnesota on May 26 following the murder of George Floyd have spread across the United States, unleashing another problematic issue: attacks on freedom of the press.

Journalists across the United States have been targeted by police while covering the George Floyd protests.

New York City police officers surrounded, shoved and yelled expletives at two Associated Press journalists covering protests on June 2nd in the latest aggression against members of the media during a week of unrest around the country.

We are deeply saddened to hear about the severe injury photojournalist Linda Tirado suffered on May 30, 2020 while capturing the protests in Nashville Tennessee.

Ellen Schmidt, a staff photographer at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and Bridget Bennett, a freelance photojournalist, were following the demonstrations on May 29 in Las Vegas when arrested along with 80 protesters.

Demonstrations across the United States continue, and with curfews put in place in large cities, reporters are facing arrests.

Madeleine Baran and Samara Freemark were reporting from the demonstration scene in Minneapolis on May 30 when a police officer ran towards them, pointing a weapon - believed to be either a projectile or a tear gas weapon- and instructing them to “GO!”.

CBS5 reporter Briana Whitney was attacked by a civilian man on live television while reporting on protests outside Phoenix Police Department headquarters on May 29.

Louisville based news agency WLKY’s crew was senselessly attacked on May 29 while covering the protests in downtown.

Los Angeles Times reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske was tear gassed while reporting the protests in Minnesota on the frontlines. CFWIJ is concerned about attacks against women journalists in the United States.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation journalist Susan Ormiston was hit with a gas canister in Minnesota. Journalists were tear gassed while covering the protests, despite clear depiction of their press credentials. CFWIJ urges US authorities and especially the police department to stop attacks against journalists. We are deeply concerned about the constant targeting of women journalists.