Asheville Blade journalists Veronica Coit and Matilda Bliss are appealing their convictions for trespassing. They had refused to leave a North Carolina park where they were covering the news. Pho...
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Stella Assange leaves the U.K. High Court after a previous hearing in Julian Assange’s case in January 2022. Stella Morris congratulated by a supporter as she leaves the High Court by Alisdare...
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TikTok is used by around 150 million Americans, including journalists. Photo courtesy of Nordskov Media . Like a bad penny, bills to ban TikTok keep turning up in Congress. We’ve written befo...
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Breaking major news — as Tim Burke did when he uncovered an antisemitic rant by Ye, formerly Kanye West, on Tucker Carlson’s TV show — sure sounds a whole lot like journalism. Photo courtes...
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Julian Assange "File:RUEDA DE PRENSA CONJUNTA ENTRE CANCILLER RICARDO PATIÑO Y JULIAN ASSANGE - 14953880621.jpg" by Cancillería del Ecuador is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. FOR IMMEDIATE RELE...
Lawmakers in New Jersey, Colorado, and California took a shamelessly ironic approach to marking this year’s Sunshine Week, by trying to crack down on the public’s access to government records...
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"Chuck Grassley " by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 . Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa could have helped pass the PRESS Act in 2022, but he declined to advance the bill for inclusion ...
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On Monday, the justices of the Supreme Court, pictured above in 2022, considered just how far the government can go to influence decisions by media companies to moderate content or publish inform...
“The Dallas Morning News dispenser” by Bonita la Banane is licensed under CC BY 2.0 . We’ve explained before that the PRESS Act — the federal shield bill that passed the House this ye...
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San José Spotlight City Hall reporter Jana Kadah conducts a phone interview. The Spotlight was awarded $500,000 in attorneys fees in its public records lawsuit against the California city after ...
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The government seized equipment from journalist Tim Burke’s home newsroom, pictured above, and indicted him under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Photo courtesy of Tim Burke. The indictment...
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You’ve got mail — and the government may have it, too. A spying program has allowed U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct hundreds of thousands of warrantless searches of Americans’ emails ...
http://freedom.press/news/reform-cant-wait-for-us-program-used-to-spy-on-journalists-and-others/
San Diego Central Jail San Diego County Sheriff's Department When sources aren’t allowed to talk, journalists turn to public records. And when journalists can’t obtain public records, they ...
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Journalist Reed Dunlea was arrested while recording for his podcast, Scene Report, at a pro-Palestinian protest in New York City on Feb. 10, 2024. We sent a letter with the Committee to Protect J...
http://freedom.press/news/nypd-must-stop-arrests-of-journalists-covering-protests/
The Supreme Court recently held oral arguments in two cases that could reshape the internet — and impact the press. File:Panorama of United States Supreme Court Building at Dusk.jpg by Joe Rav...
Journalist Tim Burke has been indicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for his online newsgathering. Photo courtesy of Tim Burke. Federal prosecutors in Florida have obtained a disturbin...
http://freedom.press/news/indictment-of-journalist-raises-serious-first-amendment-concerns/
Student journalists work hard to persist in the face of increasing threats to their First Amendment rights. So the last thing they need is Congress piling on with a bill like the Kids Online Safe...
http://freedom.press/news/the-kids-online-safety-act-will-censor-student-journalists/
The indictment against Julian Assange seeks to make the publication of government secrets a crime. Top Secret by Michelangelo Carrieri is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 . Today, the High Court of...
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It's time for the DOJ to drop the Assange case and save the First Amendment. Department of Justice Building, Washington, D.C. by Ken Lund is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 . A video from Freedom ...
Legal scholars, media publishers, civil liberties advocates and lawmakers have all warned the Biden administration of the dangers to press freedom of prosecuting Julian Assange under the Espionag...
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Journalists encounter electronic documents in a variety of formats in the course of their work. Spreadsheets documenting a politician’s expenses might show evidence of a lavish party taking pla...
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LAPD officers who claim they work undercover are suing the city for accidentally releasing their photographs to a journalist. The city, ignoring the Constitution and Supreme Court, is demanding t...
http://freedom.press/news/las-lawsuit-against-journalist-ben-camacho-is-an-unconstitutional-mess/
Georgia prosecutors in the case against Stop Cop City protester Ayla King have successfully argued that use of a "burner phone" is evidence of criminal intent. Press freedom and civil liberties g...
http://freedom.press/news/rights-orgs-to-georgia-ag-stop-criminalizing-dissent-and-privacy/
The Daily Northwestern put personal feelings aside and fought back with news ink after authorities filed charges against two students over flyers parodying its front page. Professional journalist...
http://freedom.press/news/northwesterns-student-newspaper-helps-kill-anti-speech-prosecution/
Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin (pictured) and Ron Wyden, along with Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham and Mike Lee, are sponsoring the most important press freedom legislation in modern history, the ...
http://freedom.press/news/fpf-explains-the-importance-of-the-press-act/
Aerial view of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Carol M. Highsmith Archive collection at the Library of Congress. What do you view as a more serious crime: divulging government secrets or...
Graphic by Kelsey Borch We are excited to share Freedom of the Press Foundation’s (FPF) 2023 Impact Report, marking another year of achievements and relentless advocacy for press freedom. ...
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Journalist Catherine Herridge, pictured above interviewing former Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller in 2020, has spent months fighting a subpoena that would force her to burn her sources. “...
http://freedom.press/news/why-political-rivals-can-and-should-come-together-for-press-freedom/
At least 85 journalists and media workers have been killed since the start of the Israel-Gaza war, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Above, journalists from Al Jazeera and other ...
http://freedom.press/news/israel-and-us-continue-to-ignore-press-freedom-violations/
Then-President Donald Trump speaks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in August 2019. Now in his third presidential candidacy, Trump continues to vilify the news media. Public Do...
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