This exchange of ideas, tactics, and rhetorical techniques to attack the press has created an apparent authoritarian feedback loop.

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.

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.

CounterSpin interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats

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.

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.

Paramount agreed to pay $16m to Trump’s future library or other cause, but not to him, made no apology

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.”

Launching the Covering Climate Now media collaboration, he urged fellow journalists to “tell the story so people get it.”

While star reporters continue to flock to Substack, subscription fatigue is only getting worse.

The legendary journalist believed that speaking truth to power was the essential underpinning of an embattled American experiment.

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.

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.