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Press freedom threats are increasing globally. The U.S. must push back.
Journalists and press freedom are under threat around the world. Governments and others abduct or kill journalists, censor reporting, and stifle newsgathering.
The U.S. must use its power and influence to protect reporters and press freedom globally. It must hold both allies and enemies to account for anti-press actions, and work to promote press protections and journalism internationally.
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It has been a year since Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered. His killers have yet to face justice.
Saudi journalists Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered one year ago today.
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In a major press freedom victory, Brazil Supreme Court judge rules to protect Glenn Greenwald and The Intercept Brasil
The ruling protects all journalists in Brazil from retaliation for their reporting.
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Dozens of press freedom groups denounce the threats against journalist Glenn Greenwald and The Intercept Brazil
The Brazilian government's attack on Glenn Greenwald and the Intercept Brazil is an attack on all journalists.
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The Brazilian government should immediately halt investigations into Glenn Greenwald and The Intercept Brazil’s reporting
Governments investigating journalists for doing their job is a serious threat to press freedom.
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Citizen Lab Q and A: The abuses of NSO Group’s hacking software and the threats to journalists
Citizen Lab Senior Researcher John Scott-Railton on the abuses of NSO Group’s hacking software and the threats it poses to journalists
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Spyware vendor defends hacking journalists, continues to embolden abusive governments
The founder of of spyware vendor NSO Group appeared to defend targeting journalists, activists, and human rights defenders with its malicious software Pegasus in an interview days ago with CBS.
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The US government is increasingly targeting journalists at the US-Mexico border
Numerous journalists covering the migrant caravan have been subjected to secondary screenings at the US-Mexico border, questioned, and searched. It’s not the first time CBP has targeted the press.
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Canadian police block journalists from covering pipeline protest in British Columbia
The Royal Mounted Canadian Police are preventing journalists from covering members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation’s opposition to the construction of a natural gas pipeline that would run through British Columbia.Members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation—including the hereditary leaders—began running checkpoints that block access to the planned construction site …
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Important new report sheds light on the US government’s border stops of journalists
A new report by the Committee to Protect to Journalists details officials’ unacceptable targeting of reporters at the border, including interrogating them about their work and pressuring them to hand over devices and passwords.
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One year on, the push for change since the murder of Malta's most famous investigative journalist
Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered on October 16, 2017. Her death has divided Malta and shaken governmental and journalistic institutions to their core. The year since has functioned as a national reckoning, a questioning, and a movement.
