Congress has reintroduced the PRESS Act. Now lawmakers must pass it.
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The PRESS Act is the most important press freedom bill in modern history.
The PRESS Act would protect journalists from being forced to reveal their confidential sources in federal court and would stop the federal government from spying on journalists— including through tech companies like Google and Facebook.
Its modern definition of ‘journalist’ would protect reporters big and small from across the political spectrum – whether they work at a mainstream news organization, an alternative outlet, are independent, or freelance. It has broad bipartisan support and has already passed the House unanimously.
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Call or email your member of Congress and urge them to support the PRESS Act so it can become law. Federal law should protect journalists and sources who expose newsworthy information the public needs to know.
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Help advance press freedom by writing newspaper op-eds or letters to the editor in support of the PRESS Act.
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FPF statement on special prosecutors’ report on Marion County Record raid
Accountability for the illegal raid is welcome — better late than never. But more is needed.
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Don’t let prosecutors decide when journalism isn’t journalism
Legal attack on reporter Trevor Aaronson is the government’s latest attempt to seize the power to define journalism
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The intersections of press freedom and the environment
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FPF discusses threats to the free press on radio talk show
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New York law to fund journalists’ jobs should be model for rest of US
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House bill on Section 702 would enlarge government’s power to spy on journalists
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