{"id":13706,"date":"2023-04-17T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T15:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/?p=13706"},"modified":"2025-02-06T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T19:00:10","slug":"news-media-alliance-joins-organizations-calling-on-administration-to-prioritize-reporters-taken-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/news-media-alliance-joins-organizations-calling-on-administration-to-prioritize-reporters-taken-hostage\/","title":{"rendered":"News\/Media Alliance Joins Organizations Calling on Administration to Prioritize Reporters Taken Hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/share.listnr.tech\/embed\/voiceover\/64415bfe85f6ba00247882fe\/?minimal=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On April 14, the News\/Media Alliance joined 25 other organizations, on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.org\/newsroom\/journalism-organizations-call-administration-prioritize-reporters-taken-hostage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0082c0;\">letter<\/span><\/a> led by the National Press Club and National Press Club Journalism Institute, calling for the Biden Administration to prioritize the release of two U.S. journalists being held hostage abroad: Austin Tice, a freelance journalist who was taken hostage in Syria over 10 years ago, and Evan Gershkovich with <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, who was imprisoned by Russian security forces in late March.<\/p>\n<p>The Alliance also published a <span style=\"color: #0082c0;\"><a style=\"color: #0082c0;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/statement-arrest-of-wall-street-journal-reporter-in-russia\/\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a><\/span> following Gershkovich\u2019s arrest calling for his release.<\/p>\n<p>The Alliance remains committed to supporting all efforts to protect journalists from threat of safety or liberty in the course of their important work.<\/p>\n<p>The letter can be viewed in full <span style=\"color: #0082c0;\"><a style=\"color: #0082c0;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.press.org\/newsroom\/journalism-organizations-call-administration-prioritize-reporters-taken-hostage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span>. 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