![]() ![]() NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. ![]() Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. And now that this week's paper is in newsstands, its reporters say they'll turn their attention to next week's edition and fight to get their equipment back.įor NPR News, I'm Rose Conlon in Marion. Publisher Eric Meyer says he believes stress from the raid played a role in his mother's death. ![]() The coroner's report listed the cause as sudden cardiac arrest. The 98-year-old died on Saturday, a day after police raided her home. It won't be tolerated in the future.ĬONLON: Outside the paper's building, people have left flowers in memory of Joann Meyer, the co-owner of the Marion County Record. I can't stop that, but I can try to send a message loud and clear. She worries the seizure could set a dangerous precedent.ĮMILY BRADBURY: I'm hearing from journalists across the state saying, wait a minute, I get tips all the time, and I use public databases to look up information all the time, so does that mean they can come and take my entire computer?ĬONLON: Meantime, attorney Bernie Rhodes, who represents the paper, is deciding what legal steps to take.īERNIE RHODES: The damage has already occurred. Emily Bradbury, executive director of the Kansas Press Association, stopped by the newsroom to help answer calls. The Marion County Police Department, which had a search warrant but not a subpoena, typically sought to seize journalists' materials, has said the raid was justified. And so Eric's basically having to rebuild the template that was going to go out for this week, redownloading software programs so we can start working again.ĬONLON: The raid appears to have stemmed from a dispute with a local restaurant owner over a drunk-driving conviction. NICHOLAS KIMBALL: Everything was on those computers. Sports reporter Nicholas Kimball said it was slow going. They were able to use some older computers to work on the week's paper. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: I'm from Phoenix.ĬONLON: Around mid-morning, staff got a temporary server set up so they could access their emails for the first time in days. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Did you get a subscription? ![]() UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Thank you so much. On Tuesday, several people stopped by the office in person to subscribe. Bentz says the paper has gotten over 1,500 new digital subscribers. All of our normal things that we have readily available on that server is gone.ĬONLON: Cheri Bentz, the paper's office manager, fielded a deluge of calls - community members asking how they can help, reporters seeking interviews and people from across the country voicing their support. So they scrambled to reconstruct pages of the newspaper and iron out details in their own reporting on the story that's thrust this central Kansas town of around 2,000 people into the national spotlight.īENTZ: We're having to recreate legals, classifieds. Much of what they needed is held on servers and hard drives that remain in police custody after Friday's raid of the office and publisher Eric Meyer's house. ROSE CONLON, BYLINE: It was hectic all day at the Marion County Record as the seven-person staff rushed to meet its midnight deadline to send the paper to print. Rose Conlon of member station KMUW and the Kansas News Service reports from Marion.ĬHERI BENTZ: Marion County Record. Police seized computers at the small-town Kansas newspaper last week in a move that's been widely criticized as a potential First Amendment violation. Despite a police raid and the death of its owner, the Marion County Record published today as usual. ![]()
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