Democracy • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom
The Paramount Skydance Sale Makes the Case for Public Media
Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders Substack
We must radically recommit to public media before every newsroom, every voice, is up for sale to the highest bidder or the ruling party’s favorite mogul. The time is now.
Published On: 07/25/2025
Journalism • Original • Press Freedom • Resistance • Safety • Social Media • Threat Management
America’s Press Freedom is Under Attack
Ron Williams
Resistance Media
The environment for press freedom in the United States is entering a perilous new phase. The attacks have been unprecedented, widespread and continue to escalate.
Published On: 07/24/2025
Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom
AFP Journalists’ Union Warns That Its Reporters Are at Risk of Starvation in Gaza
Haaretz
Haaretz
'Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can recall seeing a colleague die of hunger. We refuse to see them die,' the French news agency's journalists union said.
Published On: 07/22/2025
Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended
Colbert’s Termination is a Corporate Assault on Dissent
Jeff Cohen
Common Dreams
In recent months, we’ve seen one media conglomerate after another offer what amounted to multimillion-dollar bribes to Trump by settling frivolous Trump lawsuits that these companies could not possibly have lost in court.
Published On: 07/19/2025
Journalism • Resistance • Social Media
Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning
Rebecca Solnit
Meditations in an Emergency
The mainstream media are overall failing to raise the alarm, failing to connect the dots, failing to show how all the injuries add up to profound danger to the nation's people, its institutions, and its environment.
Published On: 07/13/2025
Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom
LA Journalists Reflect on Protest Attacks
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Journalists covering recent demonstrations in California have been assaulted, detained, shot with crowd-control munitions, and had their equipment searched — simply for doing their jobs.
Published On: 07/11/2025
Journalism • Press Freedom
New report maps a “severe” shortage of local journalists in the U.S.
Corey Hutchins
NiemanLab
The report from Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist.
Published On: 07/10/2025
Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Safety
CPJ outraged at ICE refusal of judge’s order to release journalist Mario Guevara
Committee to Protect Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Spanish-language reporter is currently the only journalist in custody in the U.S. whose arrest was in relation to their work.
Published On: 07/02/2025
Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance
ICE wants to work in secret. We shouldn’t let it
Caitlin Vogus
Freedom of Press Foundation
While noncitizen journalists are the easiest targets for now, it’s abundantly clear that the government would like to criminalize journalists it doesn’t like, regardless of the journalists’ residency status.
Published On: 07/02/2025