
Public records help overcome obstacles to reporting on state prisons
Michelle Pitcher navigates secretive Texas criminal justice system to produce vital investigative reports

Michelle Pitcher navigates secretive Texas criminal justice system to produce vital investigative reports

Public records requests seek transparency on internal discussions of illegal deportation

Releasing public records serves the public’s interest — even when it doesn’t serve the agency’s interests

In cherry-picking who can cover him, Trump is limiting White House access to only those willing to stoop to his demands

Lawyers need to stop asking for orders barring speech and judges need to stop granting them.

Exercising one First Amendment right cannot mean undermining another

Lisa Pickoff-White and the California Reporting Project help journalists hold power to account

Without legal recourse, abuses against incarcerated journalists go unchecked

There’s an easy way for the immigration court to be transparent about its proceedings: Let the press and the public watch them online

Criminal charges should be the furthest thing from reporters’ minds when news falls in their laps