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 • 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
Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom
Prosecution Against Journalist Endangers Right To Gather News
Kevin Gosztola
The Dissenter
The “government’s interpretation of the Wiretap Act would unleash frivolous litigation and make the Act a magnet for arbitrary and harassing enforcement actions in the future.”
Published On: 06/30/2025
Journalism • Original • Press Freedom • Resistance • Social Media • Technology
You’re Not Paranoid. The Surveillance State is Already Here
Ron Williams
Resistance Media
Essential to maintaining a resistance media capacity will be the ability to successfully wage a running battle with those entities that would seek to surveil, disrupt, censor and destroy opposition voices.
Published On: 06/18/2025
Human Rights • Press Freedom • Violence
Press groups push DHS over potential First Amendment violations during LA protests
BrieAnna J. Frank
USA Today
Press freedom organizations warn the Department of Homeland Security that federal officers “may have violated the First Amendment rights” of journalists covering protests.
Published On: 06/11/2025
Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Featured • Press Freedom • Recommended • Surveillance
How a Small Investigative Team Is Fighting the Growing Cyber Surveillance Threat
Rowan Philp
Global Investigative Journalism Network
The tide of sophisticated surveillance tools and their sinister applications is poised to overwhelm watchdogs, tech platforms, and regulators.
Published On: 06/10/2025
Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Violence
UN Human Rights Office condemns targeting journalists and attacks on hospitals
UN Human Rights Office
un.org
Directing attacks against protected persons such as journalists is a violation of international humanitarian law and also constitutes a war crime.
Published On: 06/06/2025
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- 08/29/2025
Gavin Newsom on Why He’ll Keep Trolling Trump
"It’s humiliating, it’s embarrassing. So this is a mirror, and it’s a mirror not just to Trump himself, but to these networks. These are the chatbots for the administration. And it’s not just Fox, it’s One America News, it’s Newsmax, and it’s all the folks in the right-wing media."
