Liberty University is pursuing criminal trespassing charges against two journalists who entered the campus against school rules to report on the the university’s decision to welcome students back to the campus from spring break.
Liberty’s president Jerry Falwell Jr. said last week during an interview with conservative radio host Todd Starnes that he is pushing for the charges against Alec MacGillis, a reporter for ProPublica, and Julia Rendleman, a freelance photographer for The New York Times. MacGillis and Rendleman allegedly entered Liberty’s campus in Lynchburg, Virginia, over the past weeks to cover the situation after nearly 2,000 students returned to their dorms amid the ongoing pandemic.
