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2024-09-17 22:54:21

Good profile of our friends at the NPPA and some of the great work they're doing.
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/standing-strong-for-visual-journalists,251961

2024-09-16 22:54:17

Police across California have threatened journalists with arrests for covering evictions of homeless encampments.
It’s unclear why — journalists aren’t interfering with the evictions. But they are documenting them, and clearly officers don’t want that.
https://freedom.press/news/california-officials-must-let-journalists-cover-encampment-sweeps/

2024-09-13 17:27:13

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Last month we signed a letter led by Defending Rights & Dissent and Courage Foundation calling for the US to stop arming Israel while it kills and otherwise targets journalists, particularly from Al Jazeera.
https://freedom.press/news/us-must-stop-providing-weapons-israel-uses-to-kill-journalists/

2024-09-13 17:26:57

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If the US tolerates censorship of foreign press by its ally it won’t be long before the same practices find their way home.
In fact, the government is already laying the groundwork.
https://thehill.com/opinion/4683332-israels-censorship-of-the-ap-is-a-cautionary-tale-for-the-us/

2024-09-13 17:26:41

After shutting down Al Jazeera's Israeli newsroom in May, Israel is now revoking press credentials of AJ journalists
Shameful.
The U.S. should insist the press have full access to cover wars that it bankrolls.
https://www.barrons.com/news/israel-says-revoking-press-credentials-of-al-jazeera-journalists-d2f7f437

2024-09-12 17:08:11

“The government says ‘national security’ is threatened by [TikTok]. A bigger threat, however, is the incessant use of that phrase to impart spurious urgency to agendas that are only tangentially, if at all, related to the nation’s safety.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/11/bytedance-tiktok-ban-legal-appeal/

2024-09-11 19:15:51

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The CIA destroyed key evidence of its torture program because “the heat [from destroying the videos] is nothing compared to what it would be if the tapes ever got into the public domain.”
https://freedom.press/news/biden-should-declassify-senate-report-on-cia-torture-program/
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2024-09-11 19:15:31

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Declassification of report on the CIA torture program would: 1) help hold the government accountable; and 2) counter growing evidence the CIA is too powerful for oversight.
https://freedom.press/news/biden-should-declassify-senate-report-on-cia-torture-program/

2024-09-11 19:15:21

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Justification for the CIA’s torture program began almost immediately after Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The full report on the program is still secret over 20 years later.
https://freedom.press/news/biden-should-declassify-senate-report-on-cia-torture-program/

2024-09-11 19:15:06

The Biden administration should commemorate 9/11 anniversary by ordering declassification of the Senate’s report on the CIA’s torture program.
By Lauren Harper
https://freedom.press/news/biden-should-declassify-senate-report-on-cia-torture-program/

2024-09-06 22:44:33

You’d think media moguls would understand that we don’t have secret courts in this country – even for rich people.
And you’d certainly think a sitting judge would get it. Apparently not.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/media/rupert-murdoch-lachlan-succession-court-news-outlets/index.html

2024-09-06 19:33:44

NY's governor ignored objections from transparency orgs, including @npub1gz6…8v8g and signed into law a bill to further delay release of public records.
Officials sign up for scrutiny. Transparency shouldn't be postponed to save them from embarrassment.
https://freedom.press/news/ny-law-will-needlessly-delay-release-of-public-records/

2024-09-06 16:55:39

Powerful account of the costs of SLAPP suits, from legal fees to insurance spikes to lost time to reputational harm. Charles Ornstein even lost out on a mortgage.
All states and the fed gov should pass anti-SLAPP laws. Those that have should strengthen them.
https://www.propublica.org/article/bud-frazier-dismissed-libel-lawsuit

2024-08-28 23:29:56

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The verdict comes less than a week before the second anniversary of the murder of Las Vegas Review-Journal journalist Jeff German that took place on Sept. 2, 2022.
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/county-official-arrested-in-stabbing-death-of-las-vegas-journalist/

2024-08-28 23:01:19

Some good news to conclude this tragic story.
Killers and assailants of journalists, along with other press freedom violators, need to be held accountable.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/courts/robert-telles-guilty-of-murdering-rj-reporter-jeff-german-case-enters-penalty-phase-watch-live-3148634/?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=topnews&utm_source=homepage&utm_term=Jury+reaches+verdict+in+Robert+Telles+murder+trial+%E2%80%94+WATCH+LIVE

2024-08-28 19:50:57

The arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov has helped foster the mistaken notion that the app is a standard end-to-end encrypted messenger.
Learn more on that and other updates from our team in this week’s digital security newsletter.
https://freedom.press/newsletter/telegram-misrepresented-amid-founders-arrest/

2024-08-27 22:08:40

Politicians think the pros of avoiding journalists outweigh the cons.
The only people who can change that are journalists themselves, by explaining to readers how official stonewalling impacts the quality of the news they consume.
https://freedom.press/news/harris-is-just-the-latest-internet-era-politician-to-stonewall-the-press/

2024-08-26 21:20:01

The NSA has finally come around to what everyone else already knew, old file formats can’t be used as an excuse to ignore FOIA requirements, especially when another department might still have the equipment.
Now, we just have to wonder how many other valid FOIA requests they’ve rejected using this bogus rationale?
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/aug/26/with-a-little-help-from-the-national-archives-nsa-finally-releases-grace-hopper-lecture-watch-it-here/
https://newsie.social/@freedomofpress/112769871287068613

2024-08-22 19:37:33

The Chicago police said they didn’t need training on journalists’ rights at protests to prepare for the DNC. But their “abysmal failure” this week proves otherwise.
Officers who threaten and arrest journalists for doing their jobs should lose their own.
https://freedom.press/news/chicago-police-ignore-warnings-about-press-freedom-at-dnc-protests/

2024-08-19 17:00:56

Meta is killing CrowdTangle, a tool used for years by journalists to track and fight misinformation online.
By shutting it down amid public outcry and an upcoming presidential election, the tech giant is undermining its transparency efforts.
https://apnews.com/article/meta-crowdtangle-research-misinformation-shutdown-facebook-977ece074b99adddb4887bf719f2112a

2024-08-12 17:47:07

A year after Marion County Record raid, authorities keep ignoring press rights — By
@npub1gz6…8v8g' Advocacy Director Seth Stern
https://freedom.press/news/a-year-after-marion-county-record-raid-authorities-keep-ignoring-press-rights/

2024-08-09 22:37:25

📩 Read in our weekly newsletter (and subscribe):
- Prosecutors’ report on illegal Marion raid
- Respecting journalists’ rights at convention protests
- Dismissed cases show university shouldn’t have arrested journalists
Plus, what we are reading...
https://freedom.press/newsletter/further-accountability-needed-in-marion/

2024-08-06 23:40:35

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@npub1gz6…8v8g is hiring a newsletter editor to help us grow, engage and create new products to reach our dedicated newsletter audiences.
https://freedom.press/careers/job/?gh_jid=4453444005

2024-08-06 20:57:34

This is VERY alarming.
Cops and prosecutors have dreamed up plenty of convoluted theories to criminalize journalism, but the NYPD charging a reporter with a hate crime for documenting news has to be one of the most outrageous yet.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-nypd-sam-seligson-brooklyn-museum-eea8ee12248d38d856fe5cabcac7a0d1

2024-08-05 16:07:07

This law prohibiting journalists and others from recording cops up close is blatantly unconstitutional, as Louisiana's previous governor recognized in vetoing it.
Good to hear that it's being challenged.
https://www.nola.com/news/politics/louisiana-news-media-groups-sue-over-police-buffer-law/article_80434710-5035-11ef-814a-275514bd7829.html

2024-07-30 20:30:30

"You can’t help but wonder with this conflict: How different would it have been if dozens of us, from many different countries, were on the ground from Oct. 8, 9, 10, and onwards?"
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/clarissa-ward-cnn-gaza-israel-hamas-war-1235065099/

2024-06-13 16:51:37

🧵 Today marks 53 years since the New York Times started publishing the Pentagon Papers – the 7,000 page top-secret study detailing decades of official lies about the Vietnam War
It was, of course, given to the newspaper by the legendary whistleblower and FPF co-founder Daniel Ellsberg.
https://assets.newsie.social/media_attachments/files/112/609/872/547/016/742/original/c276ee29a02e6093.jpeg

2024-06-06 21:15:07

Either Stanford doesn’t know that CA law explicitly protects the rights of journalists covering protests, or it doesn’t care.
Either way, it should be ashamed of itself for trampling on press freedom.
The charges against The Stanford Daily reporter should be dropped.
https://stanforddaily.com/2024/06/05/letter-from-the-editors-on-todays-arrests-at-the-presidents-office/