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FPF experts weigh in on current press freedom issues in media outlets worldwide

Featured Items

Stop the Pentagon’s secrecy grab
State Public Records•Newsletter
Plus: The U.S. Virgin Islands needs transparency reform, another journalist subpoena comes to light, and some good news for the press in Puerto Rico

Published Aug. 7, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation
Jay Clayton is a threat to press freedom
PRESS Act•Newsletter
Plus: How attacks on radical outlets endanger all journalism

Published July 31, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation
A journalist’s fight for Epstein transparency
Online Censorship•Newsletter
Drop charges against journalists who covered Delaney Hall

Published July 3, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation
Can’t punish reporting it? Punish transporting it
Protests•Newsletter
Tell Trump’s censorship czar to stop retaliating against ABC

Published June 26, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation
At Paramount, criticism is a conflict of interest. Corruption isn’t
Oligarchs•Newsletter
Plus: Clean up your mess, New Jersey courts

Published June 19, 2026 Freedom of the Press Foundation
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
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
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
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
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