President-Elect Trump: Please Consider Catherine Herridge’s Offer of a Sit-Down on the PRESS Act

​Award-winning journalist Catherine Herridge, who is being pressed by a federal judge to reveal her source for an investigative journalism series, has a lot on her plate.
 
She is walking the marbled halls of the U.S. Senate advocating passage of a bill, the PRESS Act, that would protect journalists and their sources. She is doing this while also facing the possibility of an $800 a day fine and jail time for not revealing the source behind her series of stories for Fox News in 2017.
 
Now Herridge is asking President-elect Trump to hear her out on why Senate passage of the PRESS Act is so important to independent, non-mainstream journalists who were so prominent in the last election. This new, rising sector of independent journalists, lacking the deep pockets of a newspaper or a network, are particularly vulnerable to government harassment. They are perhaps the most in need of a limited right to refuse demands from government prosecutors to reveal their sources. Here’s what Herridge told NewsNation:

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