Reporters Committee chair Pierre Thomas discusses press issues with former Attorney General Eric Holder at the 45th anniversary reception. More photos and video online.
The Reporters Committee maintains an interactive map of police body camera access policy and law across the United States. Check out this regularly modified feature, and send us your city and state updates.
The American Society of News Editors and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press are pleased to announce the 11th annual Sunshine Week initiative, March 13-19. Special projects and events are already planned around the nation to mark this...
Attorneys from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, LLP are helping an education reporter push back against the New York City Department of Education (“DOE”), which has stonewalled the...
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 24 news organizations have written to Florida lawmakers urging them to reject two bills that would "substantially weaken Florida's Public Records Law" and "undermine the state...
The Reporters Committee is pleased that the judge in the Molycorp Inc. bankruptcy case today agreed to rescind his order from last week demanding disclosures of all contacts the parties had with any Bloomberg reporters related to the case. The judge...
A federal bankruptcy judge in Delaware yesterday denied a motion by Bloomberg News, without oral argument, to suspend an overreaching investigation into contacts between its reporters and the parties in a bankruptcy proceeding.
The court’s...
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