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Understanding the new CIA mass surveillance scandal

The CIA is operating a mass surveillance program affecting Americans entirely in secret.

Landmark order protecting press freedom from Minnesota police should be a model around the country

Court ordered settlement requires Minnesota State Patrol to stop arresting and assaulting journalists.

Government secrecy kills

Even the Director of National Intelligence admits the U.S. secrecy system is horribly broken.

Support the NSO Group whistleblower, and others like him

Journalists have been working incredibly hard to expose the spyware company and its authoritarian users. But let's not forget about the whistleblowers.

Biden’s Justice Dept. promised to support a strong journalist shield law. So why hasn’t it?

Sen. Ron Wyden calls the Justice Department’s inaction on key press freedom issue “extremely frustrating, and frankly unacceptable”

Why the FBI raid of Project Veritas is concerning for press freedom

The FBI raid of James O'Keefe is a troubling development for press freedom. That the potential story was not a blockbuster public interest investigation, and that O’Keefe and Project Veritas have a long history of deception and manipulation, do not change that fact.

Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web funds largest grant in Freedom of the Press Foundation's history

Funding will largely go towards developing the next-generation SecureDrop system for journalists and whistleblowers.

As lawmakers debate drone tragedy, a key whistleblower remains behind bars

A brave whistleblower served as a source to stories that shaped the public understanding of the otherwise secret U.S. drone program. He's serving a prison sentence as lawmakers reckon with the very information he revealed.

Lawmakers can support journalists, but only by actually listening to them first

In the past two months, lawmakers in Florida and New Jersey have advanced misguided proposals that would effectively classify assaults on journalists as hate crimes. These proposals would do little to fix the underlying issues and would likely create a host of new problems.

The George Floyd protests started three months ago today. More than 700 journalists have reported press freedom violations since.

An unprecedented press freedom crisis has been unfolding around the country for the past three months.