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Coverage dated August 11, 2026 to August 12, 2026

A Kansas town will pay $850K to end a reporter’s lawsuit over a 2023 raid on her paper’s offices

Headline from WTOP Washington DC

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A small Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at its weekly…

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  1. Kansas Reflector

    Three years after police raid on Kansas newspaper, reporter settles lawsuit for $850K (opens Kansas Reflector)

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    TOPEKA — Phyllis Zorn, the reporter whose acts of journalism served as an excuse for the August 2023 police raid of the Marion County Record, will get $850,000 from the city of Marion to settle her federal lawsuit over the raid.

  2. WTOP Washington DC

    A Kansas town will pay $850K to end a reporter’s lawsuit over a 2023 raid on her paper’s offices (opens WTOP Washington DC)

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    TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A small Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at its weekly…

  3. Niemanlab

    Remember that raid on a small-town Kansas newspaper? The city has agreed to pay one reporter $850,000 (opens Niemanlab)

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    On August 11, 2023, local law enforcement seized electronics and reporting materials from the Marion County Record in a raid that provoked a national outcry over the blatant press freedom violation in small-town Kansas.

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