Journalists at independent news outlets in Russia have been arrested, raided, censored, and forced to flee in the past week.

With a reporter surveillance scandal of its own embroiling Biden’s Department of Justice, it’s now more important than ever for his administration to throw its weight behind passing a journalist shield law such as Senator Ron Wyden’s PRESS Act.

In the week since Politico dropped its blockbuster reporting on a draft Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the floodgates of leaks have opened. That’s a good thing.

The Los Angeles County sheriff’s public threat of retaliatory investigation into a reporter is an outrageous press freedom violation, and Freedom of the Press Foundation has joined over two dozen groups last week in a letter condemning that action.

Freedom of the Press Foundation announces new membership program to bring its community together in a world where press freedom is under constant threat.

New York City Hall is out of line in demanding information about the criminal backgrounds and open cases of journalists applying for press credentials.

In an important ruling for the press’s ability to report freely on the work of other outlets, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that including a screenshot in an article commenting on another article's reporting is not copyright infringement. This is welcome news in an age where copyright can be used to restrict what newspapers can and can’t say about each other.

Lawmakers called for modernization and an answer to a “basic question about how FOIA is operating in the context of new technology.”