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A person, seen from behind with a close-up on their head, takes a picture while wearing a black helmet with the word PRESS written in white across it.

PPE protects your right to know

Protests•Newsletter

Plus: Trump’s disappearing DMs

Published June 12, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

A person in a coat and a gas mask holding half of a traffic cone, surrounded by clouds of tear gas outside the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey

NJ police to journalists: Papers please

Protests•Newsletter

Plus: Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence is stunningly unqualified, and a veteran ‘60 Minutes’ journalist sounds the alarm on censorship at CBS

Published June 5, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

Paramount CEO David Ellison with his father Larry at the premiere of “Star Trek Into Darkness.”

Journalists stand up for their independence

Trump•Newsletter

Plus: Failed Don Lemon and Georgia Fort warrants expose attack on press

Published May 29, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

Four women hug in a brightly lit room, standing before computers and others milling around in the background.

Judge angled for federal gig while hearing Trump’s Pulitzer suit

Trump•Newsletter

Plus: Press groups rally behind ABC as FCC targets ‘The View’

Published May 22, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

Todd Blanche, frowning and wearing a dark suit with an American flag pin, shown from the chest up in front of a Department of Justice seal

When ‘national security’ is code for ‘bury the truth’

Leaks•Newsletter

Israel threatens NYT over torture report

Published May 15, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

Exposing Paramount’s press freedom sellout

Oligarchs•Newsletter

FBI investigates yet another news story critical of Kash Patel

Published May 8, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

Donald Trump, then president-elect, speaks to incoming Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr.

Bootlicking Brendan’s back at it

Trump•Newsletter

Plus: It’s almost World Press Freedom Day. Someone forgot to tell the world

Published May 1, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

Incarcerated people watching television at a California prison.

Lessons from prison on media consolidation and censorship

Incarcerated Journalists•Newsletter

Plus: WHCA … WTF?

Published April 24, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

Free journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

ICE•Newsletter

Plus: Meet the immigration judge who didn’t get fired

Published April 17, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation

President Donald Trump’s helicopter flies away, with blurred images of people and an American flag in the foreground.

Whistleblower prosecution has nothing to do with national security

Leaks•Newsletter

Plus: DOJ wants to scrap the Presidential Records Act

Published April 10, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation