Last month, on her 38th birthday, Georgia Fort told me that she finally feels like an adult. Not because her three kids are getting older or because she’s reached a landmark level of achievement in her 16-year career as an independent journalist in her home state of Minnesota. Her new sense of maturity is not about accolades, but adversity.
Earlier this year she and fellow independent journalist Don Lemon were arrested by federal officials after covering a protest, and overnight, became national symbols of the fight to preserve free speech and a free press in the increasingly repressive age of Trump.
