It’s been more than seven months since the May 2023 FBI raid of Florida journalist Tim Burke’s home newsroom, after Burke found and publicized Fox News interview outtakes where rapper Ye made antisemitic remarks. Yet the government still hasn’t explained the basis for the raid or returned all of Burke’s seized equipment and information.
The raid in Kansas was uniquely egregious but it was far from the only newsworthy recent attack on the press
It’s embarrassing that elected officials actually support this unconstitutional mess
First Amendment dangers extend far beyond immigration reporting
The Nixon admin tried to prosecute the New York Times under the same statute the Justice Department is going after Julian Assange today.
As we come to the end of Sunshine Week — the long-running annual initiative focusing on government transparency — we're taking a look at how the first few months of the Biden administration have shaped up on that front.
Trump's Justice Department has much more power over journalists than Trump's tweets, and may be getting ready to use it.
The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker documented numerous attacks on journalists and press freedom rights across the country in 2018, from arrests to physical attacks and prosecutions of sources.
Since 2012, Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) has accepted donations on behalf of WikiLeaks readers after Visa, Mastercard and PayPal instituted an extra-legal financial blockade of WikiLeaks in 2011 and 2012. When WikiLeaks started publishing classified State Department cables in conjunction with the New York Times and other papers …
The news outlet’s silencing serves as a cautionary tale for the U.S., following its flurry of censorial bills and court cases