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

“A decade ago, there were international programs for exiled media, ...there has been nothing since, and there is no association of exiled media.”

The United States is now at a critical juncture concerning both the future of freedom of the press and democratic institutions more broadly.

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.

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

As Trump tries to destroy one free institution after another—universities, law firms, independent public agencies, trade unions—sooner or later he will come for the press.