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.

The Spanish-language reporter is currently the only journalist in custody in the U.S. whose arrest was in relation to their work.

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.”

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.

Press freedom organizations warn the Department of Homeland Security that federal officers “may have violated the First Amendment rights” of journalists covering protests.

The tide of sophisticated surveillance tools and their sinister applications is poised to overwhelm watchdogs, tech platforms, and regulators.

Directing attacks against protected persons such as journalists is a violation of international humanitarian law and also constitutes a war crime.

Journalists should consider the following digital and physical safety advice to help better protect themselves.

The White House launches a taxpayer-funded “news wire” to push state propaganda

We must say 'no' to the war of words and images; we must reject the paradigm of war,"

How autocrats protect their claims to be the sole arbiters of truth

Piker's detention occurs against a backdrop of increasing scrutiny of political activists and commentators, especially those who challenge the administration’s policies on Israel.

Exhausted but free, Ekaterina Barabash recounted her escape from the Russian authorities, who put her on their wanted list as she faced up to ten years in prison.

Most alarming part of all is what Bondi reportedly wants to do next. According to sources close to the Justice Department, she has argued that leakers — or even reporters — who provide information that she doesn’t like could be prosecuted for treason, a crime that carries the death penalty.

The global state of press freedom is now classified as a “difficult situation” for the first time in the history of the Index.