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FBI’s Atlantic probe shows ‘complete disregard’ for First Amendment
The investigation would be outrageous even if the magazine reported classified information, which it didn’t

Bootlicking Brendan’s back at it
Plus: It’s almost World Press Freedom Day. Someone forgot to tell the world

This World Press Freedom Day, American journalists are under attack
The U.S. government has declared open season on the news media. May 3 is a reminder to fight back

FCC plan to challenge Disney broadcast licenses amounts to ‘illegal jawboning’
The FCC is neither the journalism police nor the humor police

Lessons from prison on media consolidation and censorship
Plus: WHCA … WTF?

FBI’s retaliatory probe of Times’ reporter is ‘off the rails’
It’s outrageous that a sober-minded FBI would even consider a theory that reporting methods like phone calls and emails might constitute stalking

A lesson on media consolidation and censorship from a Texas prison
How Trump steering CNN and HBO to his allies can drastically alter the public discourse

Free journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin
Plus: Meet the immigration judge who didn’t get fired

Whistleblower prosecution has nothing to do with national security
Plus: DOJ wants to scrap the Presidential Records Act

Sources aren’t safe when surveillance is for sale
Congress must close the loophole that turns journalists’ and sources’ data into a storehouse for state spying



