FBI raid on journalist's home

NPR  - Some media executives are calling the FBI’s search of a reporter’s home yesterday an alarming intrusion into the freedom of the press. The agency searched Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s house as part of the Trump administration’s investigation of a leak. Agents seized two computers and her smartwatch. Last month, Natanson documented the purge of hundreds of thousands of federal employees by relying on over 1,000 sources.

It is highly unusual for the agency to search a reporter’s home instead of an office, NPR’s David Folkenflik told Up First. The government has informed the newspaper that Natanson is not the focal point of the investigation. Marty Baron, a former executive editor of The Washington Post, told Folkenflik that this administration has displayed a pattern of trying to undermine an independent press and attempting to interfere with its work.