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Celebrate the truth. Don’t weaken Texas anti-SLAPP law

Speaking the truth shouldn’t subject you to drummed-up lawsuits, endless legal proceedings, and potentially bankrupting legal fees, journalist Charles Ornstein told us

Published March 13, 2025 Caitlin Vogus

Freelance photojournalist Matthew Kaplan, at center left in green, was arrested while covering an anti-deportation protest in Gary, Indiana, on Jan. 18, 2025.

Prosecution of Indiana journalist furthers national anti-press climate

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Journalists must be allowed to cover protests and their aftermath

Published March 10, 2025 Freedom of the Press Foundation

Three officers stand in a stairwell, wearing vests and balaclavas. The words “POLICE ICE” appear on the vest of one officer with his back toward the camera.

‘Fox & Friends’ no friends to free press

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Recent comments by ‘Fox & Friends’ co-hosts that police should ‘go after’ a journalist for reporting the news are as shortsighted as they are wrong

Published March 6, 2025 Caitlin Vogus

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Hands off Texas anti-SLAPP law

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We asked a SLAPP defendant and her lawyer to explain how proposed changes to Texas law could harm consumers and free speech

Published March 5, 2025 Caitlin Vogus

Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, pictured here protesting President Donald Trump’s policies

Durbin must rethink repeal of online free speech law

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Eliminating Section 230 would harm journalism by giving the largest social media outlets a monopoly

Published Feb. 28, 2025 Freedom of the Press Foundation

President Donald Trump throws a hat that reads “Trump Was Right About Everything” as he talks to reporters in the Oval Office in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 26, 2025.

How Trump’s press pool takeover harms public — including red states

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A press pool that is handpicked by the government is by definition not a free press.

Published Feb. 27, 2025 Freedom of the Press Foundation

A photo of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem walking alongside a uniformed member of the military.

Trump hides migrant detention away at Gitmo

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Detaining migrants at Guantánamo Bay helps the government shut out journalists and control the public narrative.

Published Feb. 18, 2025 Freedom of the Press Foundation

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Journalists: Post public records without paywalls

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News outlets can help preserve the public domain, and maybe even gain some subscribers

Published Feb. 18, 2025 Seth Stern

Secret U.K. spy order imperils press freedom

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By demanding a back door into end-to-end encrypted iCloud data, the U.K. undermines journalist-source confidentiality

Published Feb. 13, 2025 Caitlin Vogus

James Goodale answers reporters’ questions in front of the Supreme Court during the Nixon era.

Legendary First Amendment lawyer urges press to fight Trump’s attacks

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Potential CBS settlement would only embolden further attacks on press freedom.

Published Feb. 12, 2025 Trevor Timm

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