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Five ideas for standing with and standing up for journalists facing police abuses at protests

How to help journalists covering protests
Plus: Agencies hijack the ‘public interest’ to attack free speech

Reddit asks, we answer: Q&A on whistleblowing, SecureDrop, and sharing info with the press
To answer questions about how the public can safely share information with the press, FPF experts engaged with Reddit’s r/IAmA community members

Journalists under attack in LA
Plus: All-star lawyers join FPF’s effort to stop Paramount settlement

Federal agencies hijack the ‘public interest’ to attack free speech
How the government is threatening nonprofits and the press, and how the public can fight back.

The reporter documenting 10 years of Trump’s anti-media posts
Since Trump’s first term as president, Stephanie Sugars has managed an extensive database that documents each and every anti-media post from Trump.

Snowden revelations take on added urgency
Plus: Texas is about to ban college kids talking at night

Texas is about to ban all speech on campuses at night. Seriously.
A new bill passed by the Texas legislature would ban everything from study groups to newspaper reporting at night at public universities in the state.

Burn after reporting: Leak investigations and the press
In FPF webinar, journalists discuss past administrations’ surveillance of their source communications and what Trump may do next

Rights organizations object to ‘entirely absurd’ Virginia gag policy
Policy purports to grant county board chair a monopoly on facts