LAWRENCE, Kansas — Nearly one year ago, police raided a small-town Kansas newsroom to execute a search warrant and made international headlines. As the Aug. 11 anniversary of the raid of the Marion County Record in Marion approaches, the official investigation report for the incident is pending and lawsuits are being reviewed, even after the initial search warrant was dropped.
A University of Kansas journalism faculty member has conducted research about the raid and its effects on small-town journalism and is available to discuss the raid, its aftermath, the First Amendment, legal protections for journalists and related topics with the media.
Stephen Wolgast, Knight Chair in Audience and Community Engagement at KU’s William Allen White School of Journalism & Mass Communications, closely followed the raid and co-led a study with Kansas journalists about the raid's effects.
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