Should journalists play a role in identifying rioters?

News organizations should soon expect to hear from federal law enforcement agencies. National Press Photographers Association General Counsel Mickey Osterreicher says he expects that they will ask or demand that news organizations and individual journalists who documented the siege of the U.S. Capitol turn over their unpublished images and videos.

“Since these actions involve federal crimes, journalists will quickly realize that we have no federal shield law,” he said.

As a result, Osterricher told Poynter, news organizations may have an unpopular fight holding on to images they did...