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2026-03-20 16:01:11 GMT

Check out EFF Executive Director (and longtime FPF legal counsel) Cindy Cohn's new book, "Privacy's Defender," to learn about her 30-year fight against digital surveillance.
Buy it here: https://www.eff.org/Privacys-Defender

2026-03-18 14:54:02 GMT

The NSA kept illegally spying on Americans for years after Snowden blew the whistle, according to a FOIA release.
This is exactly why Section 702, an easily abused warrantless surveillance authority, needs reform.
Time for Congress to stand up to the intel community and protect our privacy.
https://www.pogo.org/investigates/declassified-report-reveals-nsa-broke-surveillance-rules

2026-03-06 18:43:56 GMT

The Espionage Act has been used to criminalize whistleblowing and newsgathering for years.
Join us for a webinar to learn about Rep. Rashida Tlaib's bill to reform the archaic law.
🗓️ March 12, 3 p.m. ET/12 p.m. PT
RSVP: https://freedom.press/reform-espionage-act
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2026-02-04 15:21:53 GMT

ICE wants to buy data from online ads to spy on people.
They say they don’t need a warrant. Congress could say they do. Time to pass the Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/ice_data_advertising_tech_firms/

2026-01-22 17:53:23 GMT

“A young, 20-something guy will never have sight again in one of his eyes because of the actions of LAPD. His crime? Taking a photograph?” FPF's Adam Rose tells Kate Cagle on Spectrum News 1.
“The reality is that these munitions cause life-altering injuries.”
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2026-01-20 22:16:00 GMT

Handling leaked documents from a whistleblower?
There may be hidden data in those files that could identify your source.
Learn more about risks and remediation for file metadata.
https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/everything-you-wanted-know-about-media-metadata-were-afraid-ask/

2026-01-15 14:40:57 GMT

Happy 25th birthday to Wikipedia, the global encyclopedia built on free speech.
https://freedom.press/issues/wikipedias-25th-birthday-proves-the-power-of-free-speech/

2026-01-14 19:07:27 GMT

The FBI's raid of the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson Wednesday is an alarming escalation in the Trump administration’s multipronged war on press freedom.
Read our statement:
https://freedom.press/issues/fbi-ignores-federal-law-to-raid-journalists-home/
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2026-01-14 14:57:51 GMT

BREAKING: Trump admin raids Washington Post reporter’s home, reportedly over classified documents.
If true, this would be a serious violation of press freedom and a disturbing escalation in Trump’s war on the First Amendment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/fbi-washington-post-journalist.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-01-13 20:01:35 GMT

Journalist Seth Harp's reporting on Maduro's abduction is protected by the First Amendment and Congress has no business grilling him about his sources.
We, alongside 22 other rights orgs, are calling to rescind a subpoena for his testimony.
Read more:
https://www.rightsanddissent.org/news/press-freedom-groups-demand-congress-rescind-subpoena-of-investigative-journalist/
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2026-01-09 22:18:53 GMT

DHS claimed four times it had “no documents” in response to FPF records requests.
This raises "serious questions about whether the agency is saving its documents anymore, much less creating them," FPF's Lauren Harper writes in The Intercept.
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/09/dhs-kristi-noem-ice-bodycam-records-foia/

2026-01-07 23:30:51 GMT

Journalists are often trained to avoid becoming part of the story. But when you can’t tell the story, you ARE the story!
If you are a journalist — or know one — who has been attacked or seriously threatened in the course of reporting, let us know.
Email us at [email protected]
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2025-12-16 17:04:32 GMT

President Trump hasn’t lost a penny because of the BBC’s editing, and his $10 billion lawsuit against them is preposterous.
The only way for the BBC to preserve its journalistic integrity is to fight back.
Read our statement:
https://freedom.press/issues/trumps-bbc-lawsuit-is-nonsense-like-his-others/

2025-12-11 19:27:21 GMT

ICE said it found no records in response to our FOIA for body-worn camera footage from Operation Midway Blitz.
We’re pursuing our options to get to the bottom of it — and send ICE a clear message: It's not the secret police or exempt from accountability.
https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/ice-claims-no-body-camera-footage-from-chicago-in-response-to-fpf-foia/
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2025-12-09 21:59:35 GMT

DHS says Kristi Noem has no Truth Social messages, in response to our FOIA request.
That sounds like BS, especially since President Trump sends his cabinet officials messages on the social platform.
We’re appealing the dubious response.
https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/dhs-says-noem-has-no-truth-social-dms-that-sounds-like-bs/

2025-12-09 14:31:34 GMT

Threatening to punish app stores if they don’t remove apps the government dislikes is unconstitutional.This time it’s ICEBlock, but tomorrow it could be a news app.
Good for ICEBlock for standing up for everyone’s First Amendment rights.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/tech/iceblock-creator-sues-trump-officials-apple-removal

2025-12-03 15:20:55 GMT

We wrote for Jacobin about our recent panel with three U.S. journalists who were aboard the Gaza aid flotillas.
They described facing assaults and threats from Israeli soldiers — and said the U.S. government did little to help.
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/gaza-journalists-flotilla-israeli-abuse

2025-11-25 14:47:55 GMT

Journalists should never be arrested for doing their jobs.
Prosecutors in Miami-Dade County must immediately drop the charges against photojournalist Dave Decker, and police should apologize for arresting him for doing nothing more than working to keep the public informed.
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/photojournalist-arrested-at-miami-immigration-protest-gear-seized/

2025-11-24 15:07:51 GMT

No president should have the power to silence journalists or control who gets to question them.
Good for the AP for refusing to back down. Others should follow their example.
https://apnews.com/article/associated-press-free-speech-white-house-a1d29b0efc3dc2c0176c7be2471f2a3b

2025-11-24 15:02:42 GMT

DHS is abusing its authority to shut down ICE-watching accounts.
Reporting on public ICE activity is protected by the First Amendment. It’s also something journalists do routinely.
Senator Wyden is right to call out this attack on the First Amendment.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/21/wyden-noem-dhs-customs-unmask-social-media/

2025-11-20 22:09:27 GMT

“It looks like these officers believe transparency itself is obstructive to their operations, which is a pretty good indicator that their operations are in need of obstruction … The First Amendment is intended to obstruct government abuses.”
https://freedom.press/issues/immigration-agents-claim-routine-reporting-violates-federal-law/

2025-11-20 15:09:49 GMT

So we went from feigned outrage about allegedly biased public media to the president making deals with centibillionaire friends to make corporate media more biased. Got it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/20/warner-bros-discovery-takeover-paramount-skydance-larry-ellison

2025-11-18 17:31:48 GMT

Mohammed bin Salman should be in a courthouse facing justice for ordering the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Instead, he's at the White House.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-saudi-crown-prince-mbs-505b32527e58d4bd49d5bc917efb4936

2025-11-14 15:12:45 GMT

LA press rights lawyer Susan Seager: "Cops are banned from shooting non-violent people with deadly projectiles — whether they’re protesters or journalists. Because it’s illegal."
https://www.dailynews.com/2025/11/12/larry-wilson-stop-shooting-at-the-press-while-we-do-our-little-jobs/

2025-11-13 16:14:31 GMT

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:
Update: Marion County, Kansas, agreed Nov. 10 to pay more than $3 million for its role in a raid on the Marion County Record newsroom in 2023.
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/newsroom-personal-equipment-seized-in-kansas-raid/

2025-11-12 16:43:27 GMT

Police and judges need a refresher on the First Amendment.
Kansas’ Marion County just provided the syllabus — the expensive way.
https://freedom.press/issues/kansas-county-pays-3m-for-forgetting-the-first-amendment/

2025-11-07 18:19:00 GMT

ICE isn’t letting the government shutdown stop it from tearing apart communities.
So FPF won’t let a shutdown stop us from suing to force transparency.
Our latest FOIA suit gets at the heart of ICE’s efforts to restrict congressional access to its detention centers.
https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/fpf-takes-ice-to-court-over-dangerous-secrecy/

2025-11-07 16:40:46 GMT

When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent
Check out this story by Michelle Zenarosa in Poynter:
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/la-public-press-journalists-covering-ice-raids-safety/

2025-11-07 15:47:42 GMT

YouTube quietly erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations: "A capitulation to Trump sanctions"
Read more in this @npub1s89…rdtv story by Nikita Mazurov and Jonah Valdez
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

2025-11-05 22:05:29 GMT

It’s impossible for journalists to do their work without opening attachments and we’re here to make sure the attachments you open are malware-free.
Help give feedback on our newest @npub1nma…e0mg release by downloading and testing it.
Check out the latest features and let the team know what you think!
https://dangerzone.rocks/news/2025-11-03-0.10.0-call-for-testing/

2025-10-30 17:38:18 GMT

Shutting down the government doesn't shut down the First Amendment.
It's absurd to exclude reporters from immigration hearings absent government permission, especially when it's impossible to obtain permission, and especially when the current government despises First Amendment freedoms.
https://cnsmaryland.org/2025/10/28/local-immigration-court-ousts-reporters-from-hearings/

2025-10-30 17:35:33 GMT

When @npub192u…ccwj made FOIA-based stories free, subscriptions went up.
When @npub1psa…j5uh published public records reporting without a paywall, new sources came forward.
We spoke to both about why dropping paywalls like this is good for journalism — and for business.
https://freedom.press/issues/wired-and-404-media-make-foia-reporting-free-other-news-outlets-should-too/

2025-10-29 14:53:19 GMT

Indiana University ordered its student-run newspaper to cease all print publication Oct. 15, less than one day after the administration fired the student newspaper’s adviser.
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/indiana-university-orders-student-paper-to-stop-printing-after-firing-adviser/

2025-10-28 13:55:32 GMT

The detention by ICE of British journalist and commentator Sami Hamdi solely for his views while on a speaking tour in the U.S. is a blatant assault on free speech.
These are the tactics of the Thought Police.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/ice-detains-british-muslim-journalist-laura-loomer

2025-10-17 15:01:12 GMT

"Instead of holding the [LAPD] accountable, the city is spending even more money to hire an outside law firm so they can effectively beg a judge for permission to keep assaulting journalists for just doing their job," FPF's Adam Rose told LAist.
https://laist.com/news/politics/lapd-use-of-force-against-press-no-kings-protests

2025-10-16 17:22:56 GMT

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We’re here to help protect you, your devices, and your sources, whether you’re a freelancer or a newsroom of any size.
Get in touch with us and we’ll get back to you with a personalized response:
https://freedom.press/digisec/programs/request-our-services

2025-10-15 16:13:44 GMT

So much for Facebook's renewed commitment to free speech.
And so much for this administration's condemnation of social media censorship.
How long will it be before the DOJ demands platforms remove news reporting on ICE?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/14/facebook-suspends-popular-ice-sightings-group-at-trump-administrations-request

2025-10-15 15:14:38 GMT

A federal court just blocked a ridiculous law that banned almost all speech on public college campuses in Texas after 10 p.m., including student journalism.
Huge win by FIRE defending the First Amendment.
Free speech doesn’t have a curfew.
https://www.thefire.org/news/victory-federal-court-halts-texas-no-first-amendment-after-dark-campus-speech-ban

2025-10-14 17:51:18 GMT

🚨 PSA: Do you have information to share with news outlets that have lost access to report from the Pentagon?
You can share it while protecting your anonymity using @npub1vvy…4kzm:
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2025-10-10 14:16:25 GMT

A new bill that recently passed the Senate will let members of Congress censor information about themselves online.
The result is easy to predict: suppression of the press from reporting about Congress.
Check out this op-ed from FPF's Caitlin Vogus:
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2025/10/10/flawed-bill-would-sacrifice-speech-for-a-false-sense-of-security/

2025-10-03 19:44:16 GMT

The hate crime charge against Alexa Wilkinson for photographing vandalism of the New York Times building is a dangerous precedent, no matter what you think of Wilkinson.
https://freedom.press/issues/journalist-or-not-photography-isnt-a-hate-crime/

2025-10-02 19:15:20 GMT

"That somebody might use the app to break the law doesn't mean the app can be banned any more than a newspaper ... because someone might use its reporting in a manner that the administration considers unlawful," FPF's Seth Stern told BBC.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2lxwxnnx2zo

2025-10-01 20:33:08 GMT

Alongside 404 Media, we sued DHS demanding they hand over a copy of an agreement that shares the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients with ICE.
We believe it’s important for the public to see this unprecedented data sharing agreement.
https://www.404media.co/404-media-and-freedom-of-the-press-foundation-sue-dhs/

2025-10-01 19:51:42 GMT

"It’s not the journalists’ burden to keep the government’s secrets for it," Seth Stern told Columbia Journalism Review. "That is the opposite of the press’s job, which is to tell the public what the government doesn’t want the public told."
https://www.cjr.org/news/pentagon-press-corps-hegseth-pledge.php

2025-10-01 16:05:02 GMT

The Senate apparently believes that members of Congress deserve privacy protections, but not regular Americans.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/ted-cruz-blocks-bill-that-would-extend-privacy-protections-to-all-americans/

2025-09-30 20:05:50 GMT

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:
Three journalists were assaulted by federal officers while reporting outside the immigration court at NYC’s Federal Plaza this morning.
One of the journalists, L. Vural Elibol of Anadolu Agency, struck his head and has been hospitalized.
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/turkish-journalist-hospitalized-after-assault-at-nyc-immigration-court/

2025-09-30 15:32:35 GMT

BREAKING: The D.C. Court of Appeals has rejected award-winning journalist Catherine Herridge's bid to protect her sources via reporter's privilege.
This is a significant blow to press freedom for all journalists.
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2025-09-29 18:50:22 GMT

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:
Journalist and co-founder of Unraveled Press Raven Geary was one of several members of the press shot with crowd-control munitions while reporting outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Friday:
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/journalist-shot-in-the-face-with-pepper-ball-at-illinois-ice-facility-protest/
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2025-09-29 13:46:18 GMT

Two journalists are set to be tried in Kentucky this week.
Their crime? Covering a protest of the immigration detainment of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt. Soliman’s lawyer called it a “cruel irony.”
https://www.cjr.org/news/madeline-fening-lucas-griffith-cincinnati-citybeat-journalists-arrested.php

2025-09-26 20:38:39 GMT

📩 Read in our weekly newsletter (and subscribe):
- Journalist Mario Guevara, facing deportation, deserves same energy as Kimmel
- How noncitizen journalists can prepare for ICE
- Drop charges against Cincinnati journalists
- Plus, what we're reading...
https://freedom.press/issues/mobilize-for-mario-guevara-like-you-did-for-jimmy-kimmel/

2025-09-26 20:24:26 GMT

Jimmy Kimmel's worst case scenario was moving from prime time to a podcast. Mario Guevara's is being shipped to El Salvador and facing more of the persecution he fled 20 years ago.
If that happens, the chilling effect will be impossible to measure.
https://freedom.press/issues/americans-rallied-for-kimmel-its-time-to-do-the-same-for-mario-guevara/

2025-09-26 18:03:52 GMT

Your kitchen cabinets? A national security threat.
Your favorite movie? Also a national security threat.
Your favorite cocktail? Possibly also a national security threat.
Here’s our current top five list of the dumbest things officials have done, or kept secret, ostensibly to protect national security.
https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/your-kitchen-cabinets-are-a-national-security-threat/

2025-09-24 15:53:23 GMT

"Security experts at several news organizations told me they are increasingly concerned about the risk of physical harm."
Read Joel Simon on some simple steps news orgs can take to protect their journalists:
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/security-risk-assessment-times-trump-safety.php

2025-09-24 14:24:12 GMT

Trump’s EO labeling antifa a “domestic terrorist organization” can and will be used to threaten journalists and sources.
Journalists who cover antifa or report on ICE must now risk being accused of “terrorism.”
The EO is illegal, but it still chills speech. The intimidation is the point.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5516744-antifa-domestic-terrorism-order-trump/amp/

2025-09-23 19:38:02 GMT

“Journalists have every right to cover protests and their aftermath, and when police disperse protestors, it does not mean they can disperse and arrest journalists doing their constitutionally protected jobs,” FPF's Seth Stern told Link nky.
https://linknky.com/news/2025/09/23/prosecutors-urged-to-dismiss-charges-against-journalists-arrested-on-roebling-bridge/

2025-09-19 19:12:01 GMT

Absolutely horrific.
Israel continues to murder journalists in all directions with complete impunity, including this latest attack in which it killed 31 journalists in Yemen.
This marks the deadliest single attack on the press in 16 years, per CPJ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/19/yemen-journalists-strike-israel-houthis

2025-09-18 19:09:41 GMT

"We've seen [Trump] sue ABC, CBS, he's sued the Des Moines Register and now he's sued the Times. This is something he has done over and over again anytime he is confronted with independent reporting he doesn't like," Caitlin Vogus told Erie News Now.
https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/53091468/potential-chilling-effect-on-journalism-following-trumps-dollar15-billion-defamation-lawsuit-against-the-new-york-times

2025-09-15 21:23:01 GMT

Texas outlawed talking on campuses after 10 p.m. Students are fighting back.
Check out this op-ed from FPF Senior Adviser Caitlin Vogus in the Houston Chronicle:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/texas-law-lawsuit-speech-talking-college-campus-21045316.php

2025-09-15 15:38:06 GMT

We spoke to @npub1s89…rdtv about a bonkers bill that would let Marco Rubio, who thinks pro-Palestine op-ed writers are terrorists, revoke passports for whoever he deems a supporter of terrorism.
It would also let a future Democratic administration target those it dislikes the same way.
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/13/marco-rubio-revoke-us-passports-terrorism/

2025-09-15 14:22:37 GMT

“While it’s good to see that Proton is reconsidering account suspensions, journalists are among the users who need these and similar tools most,” @npub19gw…7ql4, Freedom of the Press Foundation's deputy director of digital security, told @npub1s89…rdtv.
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/12/proton-mail-journalist-accounts-suspended/

2025-09-12 20:36:53 GMT

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:
The LA Press Club won a preliminary injunction against the LAPD on Sept. 10.
The ruling comes after a federal judge said a “cannonade of evidence” showed the “LAPD appeared to target journalists” during a wave of immigration protests this summer.
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/journalist-struck-with-baton-finger-injured-amid-protests-in-downtown-la/

2025-09-09 18:28:22 GMT

FOIA offices are being decimated across federal agencies, leaving the government unable to fulfill public records requests. Don’t let this blatant attack on transparency fly under the radar.
Use our new, easy tool to tell your representatives to safeguard FOIA.
https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/foia/

2025-09-09 14:04:54 GMT

For anyone who thinks press freedom is only a problem in red states: At a time when officers are "wearing ski masks and covering their badge numbers," the CA legislature is considering further undermining transparency on police misconduct.
https://www.dailynews.com/2025/09/08/assembly-bill-1178-will-undermine-transparency-and-police-accountability/

2025-09-08 14:33:51 GMT

Another example of the obvious: The first time caving to Trump is never the last.
First, it was cut interviews for time, but post a transcript. Now, it’s show the whole interview live so we can eat up as much airtime as we want with lies and nonsense.
https://apnews.com/article/cbs-face-nation-editing-kristi-noem-0a148a59c50ee50921b029528946244e

2025-09-05 21:06:14 GMT

End to end encryption is vital to protect journalists, human rights workers, and billions of people across the world. Read this important piece from @npub13rk…gmvy:
https://hrdag.substack.com/p/without-encryption-my-work-wouldnt

2025-09-05 15:05:44 GMT

Video recording police isn’t the equivalent of throwing a Molotov cocktail at them, no matter what Kristi Noem says.
https://freedom.press/issues/recording-police-is-violence-absolutely-not/

2025-09-04 19:52:21 GMT

ICE may soon receive access and training on the use of targeted spyware produced by Israeli firm Paragon.
Learn how to protect yourself and your devices in our digital security newsletter (and subscribe):
https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/ice-revives-contract-for-spyware/

2025-09-02 21:26:48 GMT

Noem's complaints underscore why news outlets can't settle frivolous lawsuits.
Now, the door is wide open for government officials to question every editing decision news outlets make, whether to shorten an interview for time or to not air lies and nonsense.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5480324-noem-abrego-garcia-cbs-interview-editing/

2025-09-02 20:10:08 GMT

Great work by RSF for organizing this. It's unfortunate that more U.S. outlets did not participate.
If the outlets you support were not among the few, ask them why.
https://rsf.org/en/rsf-and-avaaz-launch-international-media-operation-rate-journalists-are-being-killed-gaza-israeli

2025-08-27 17:36:02 GMT

Charges against Rümeysa Öztürk aren’t true, and U.S. government records can prove it.
That’s why we filed a FOIA lawsuit.
But the State Department is using FOIA exemptions as an invisibility cloak to hide potentially damning information.
We’ll keep fighting.
https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/the-us-government-is-hiding-%C3%B6zt%C3%BCrk-records-its-rationale-is-insulting/

2025-08-25 18:12:36 GMT

Israel is killing journalists with impunity, and the U.S. supplies it with the weapons used to murder the truth.
https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-gaza-journalists-killed-5c33e999ee88effd89566a993b31d9cc

2025-08-22 14:33:32 GMT

Illinois strengthened its anti-SLAPP law after a nonsensical court ruling excluded news reporting from the law’s protection.
FPF worked with local organizations and lawyers to help fix the mess.
Every state needs a strong anti-SLAPP law.
https://www.wcia.com/news/capitol-news/pritzker-signs-bill-to-protect-freedom-of-press-illinois-journalists/

2025-08-21 16:24:06 GMT

“Israel assassinated a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, a young man who had suddenly become the face and voice of the desperate people of his homeland, Gaza…The military made no attempt to obscure this brazen strike on civilians, which is a war crime.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/israel-al-sharif-killing-gaza.html

2025-08-21 15:38:38 GMT

"Ahead of the planned invasion of Gaza City, killing Anas Al-Sharif is the latest step in Israel's campaign to erase Gaza's witnesses and prevent accountability."
https://www.972mag.com/israel-hamas-journalists-smear-gaza/

2025-08-18 19:27:05 GMT

Police officers obstructing lawful journalism and giving their own publicly funded propagandists the exclusive right to record them up close is unconstitutional, un-American, and absurd, and we very much doubt the taxpayers of Eugene, Oregon, ever intended to fund these kinds of anti-press antics.
https://doublesidedmedia.com/2025/08/15/eugene-police-debuts-own-press/

2025-08-18 14:32:54 GMT

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:
Filmmaker Rocky Romano was wearing visible credentials and carrying pro-grade gear when he was hit with a baton and shoved to the ground by LAPD officers while covering an anti-deportation protest in LA on Aug. 8.
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/documentarian-hit-with-police-baton-equipment-damaged-at-la-protest/

2025-08-14 20:29:45 GMT

Israel operates a "Legitimization Cell" that seeks to frame journalists in Gaza as "Hamas operatives."
"The idea was to [allow the military to] operate without pressure, so countries like America wouldn’t stop supplying weapons," one source told +972 Magazine.
https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-journalists-hamas-hasbara/

2025-08-14 19:56:37 GMT

It shouldn't need to be said, but with this FCC is apparently does: The FCC has no business and no right to revoke licenses because it disagrees with how a station covers the news.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/arizona-senate-president-calls-fcc-revoke-states-pbs-license-over-viewpoint-discrimination

2025-08-14 17:44:38 GMT

Watch journalist Alistair Kitchen recount being detained for 12 hours, interrogated, his device searched at LAX in June, and later deported over his reporting.
This is yet another clear sign that press freedom is under threat amid growing political repression and democratic decline in the U.S.
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/australian-writer-deported-after-interrogation-over-reporting-phone-search/
https://cdn.masto.host/socialfreedompress/media_attachments/files/115/028/356/496/409/762/original/771a65c9cac2b4e4.mp4

2025-08-13 17:21:32 GMT

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:
Independent photojournalist Nick Stern was pushed and struck in the face with a baton by police and his press credentials damaged while he was covering immigration protests in downtown LA on Aug. 8.
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/photojournalist-struck-with-baton-press-credential-damaged-at-la-protest/
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2025-08-12 14:11:37 GMT

The LAPD's brutal attack on independent journalists on Friday night is an attack on everyone's right to know.
The LAPD must be held accountable.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/los-angeles-protests-journalists-police-20250810.html

2025-08-11 20:29:34 GMT

“If journalists are not willing to report on the ongoing attacks against the free press, who will?”
Award-winning investigative reporter Jessica McMaster reflects on Marion County Record raid two years later.
https://freedom.press/issues/a-massive-failure-in-kansas-two-years-since-the-marion-county-record-raid/

2025-08-11 14:17:27 GMT

In a just world, there would be an investigation and accountability for Israel committing this horrific crime.
But we all know that's not going to happen, unless and until governments stop using platitudes and actually put an end to this travesty at once.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/8/11/live-israel-claims-responsibility-for-murder-of-al-jazeeras-al-sharif

2025-07-31 20:30:04 GMT

FCC's Brendan Carr has driven away from championing free speech
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/07/31/fccs-free-speech-carr-trump-skydance-paramount-cbs-jacob-sullum

2025-07-31 18:02:40 GMT

ICE isn’t just targeting immigrants — it’s targeting journalists reporting on them.
From FCC investigations to courtroom harassment and threats of prosecution, press freedom is under attack.
Watch FPF Senior Adviser ‪Caitlin Vogus‬ explain:
https://cdn.masto.host/socialfreedompress/media_attachments/files/114/949/155/392/826/817/original/e222c76f05177e5f.mp4

2025-07-29 21:11:47 GMT

The good news: Tom Hayden’s public records-based citizen journalism made a real impact in his Evanston, Illinois,-community.
The bad: The personal toll of being an unpaid reporter covering politically heated stories caused him to give it up.
https://freedom.press/issues/the-rise-and-fall-of-foia-gras/

2025-07-29 19:07:12 GMT

“Everyone from U.S. senators to CBS employees to a dissenting FCC commissioner has said the settlement appears to have been a bribe to grease the wheels for Carr’s FCC to approve the merger,” we said in our ethics complaint against FCC chair Brendan Carr.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5425320-press-freedom-fcc-ethics-complaint/

2025-07-28 21:25:31 GMT

We, represented by American Oversight, filed a FOIA suit against the DOJ for withholding a memo about the Trump admin’s acceptance of $400 million Qatari jet.
“It shouldn’t take 620 days to release a single, time-sensitive document,” Lauren Harper said.
https://freedom.press/issues/fpf-sues-doj-for-trump-memo-on-qatari-jet/

2025-07-25 21:18:43 GMT

Read in our weekly newsletter (and subscribe):
- Paramount makes its capitulation official
- Journalists starve in Gaza
- ICE must stop harassing journalists
- KY prosecutors must drop charges against journalists
- Plus, get to know what we’re reading...
https://freedom.press/issues/theyre-not-even-trying-to-hide-it/

2025-07-25 17:14:53 GMT

“People can’t trust a news outlet that is bribing the same officials it’s supposed to hold accountable,” Seth Stern told CJR about Paramount's capitulation to Trump.
https://www.cjr.org/feature-2/paramount-trump-lawsuit-settlement-skydance-merger-press-freedom.php

2025-07-25 15:47:44 GMT

"The idea that the federal government even talked to social media platforms about their moderation was a major scandal … A bipartisan bill, however, would make it mandatory for social media companies to work with the federal government."
https://reason.com/2025/07/24/this-bill-would-fine-social-media-companies-5-million-every-day-for-not-fighting-terrorism/

2025-07-24 22:17:21 GMT

Looks like Paramount’s $16 million settlement with Trump is only the second highest sum it’s paid this month to get publicly ridiculed.
Good for South Park for taking Paramount’s $1.5 billion and still skewering them for their cowardice. They deserve it.
https://cdn.masto.host/socialfreedompress/media_attachments/files/114/910/522/719/605/169/original/83ca7482ae72a899.mp4

2025-07-23 17:17:43 GMT

🚨 PSA: If you are an ICE or DHS employee and have firsthand knowledge of unreported immigration enforcement activities that you think the public should know, find a news outlet that uses @npub1vvy…4kzm and send it as an anonymous, encrypted tip.
Audio, video, documents all accepted.
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2025-07-23 15:54:00 GMT

"Journalists in Gaza have risked bombs, bullets, and now starvation to tell the stories those in power don’t want told. Their courage is remarkable," Seth Stern told Meghnad Bose in CJR.
"And no matter what else they do while in power, governments and presidents that supported these horrors, and tolerated the killing of journalists who reported on them, will be remembered first and foremost for their complicity."
https://www.cjr.org/news/journalists-starving-gaza-hunger-israel-palestine-war.php

2025-07-23 14:31:49 GMT

Journalists covering recent demonstrations in California have been assaulted, detained, and shot with crowd-control munitions — simply for doing their jobs.
“We see these agencies acting lawlessly,” Tina-Desiree Berg said.
Read the recap from our webinar:
https://freedom.press/issues/pressing-on-la-journalists-face-violence-and-push-for-accountability/

2025-07-22 17:58:52 GMT

It's disturbing that Trump "has so little respect for the First Amendment that he’s willing to punish news outlets that don’t toe the line," Seth Stern told The Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/22/white-house-wall-street-journal-trump-epstein/

2025-07-22 14:02:08 GMT

Journalists covering recent demonstrations in California have been assaulted, detained, and shot with crowd-control munitions — simply for doing their jobs.
“We see these agencies acting lawlessly,” Tina-Desiree Berg said.
Read the recap from our webinar:
https://www.pressclubinstitute.org/2025/07/11/pressing-on-los-angeles-journalists-face-violence-push-for-accountability/

2025-07-21 15:23:17 GMT

More and more, the Trump administration is accusing journalists of inciting violence or lawlessness by simply reporting the news.
These claims are baseless, but they’re not harmless.
https://freedom.press/issues/no-reporting-is-not-incitement/

2025-07-17 15:08:55 GMT

Is President Trump using the ruse of building a presidential library as a vehicle for funneling bribes?
Sen. Warren’s new bill could put a stop to that.
https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/building-presidential-libraries-shouldnt-be-a-ruse-for-funneling-bribes/

2025-07-17 14:56:48 GMT

NASA walks back its commonsense promise to host landmark climate reports on its website.
These reports are required by law and help the public adapt to climate change.
Keeping them secret puts us all at greater risk.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/climate/nasa-website-climate-report.html