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Some of the country's top journalists issued stark warnings about the importance of protecting First Amendment rights on Nov 22, two weeks after Donald Trump was elected president. "This year the threats to press freedom are quite close to home. It's right here," New Yorker editor David Remnick said at the Committee to Protect Journalists dinner.

"I never in a million years thought I would be up here on stage appealing for the freedom and safety of American journalists at home," CNN's Christiane Amanpour said. Amanpour called on the journalists in attendance to "recommit to robust fact-based reporting" and to fight "against normalization of the unacceptable." President-elect Trump's attacks against the American media were a recurring theme during the annual dinner, which focuses on threats to journalists in repressive regimes. "We will hold the new administration's feet to the fire. And they should respect that, even if they don't welcome it," CNN president Jeff Zucker said.