Announcements

The designation demonstrates mounting efforts by the Kremlin to suppress press freedom.

"We stand in solidarity with our colleagues at the IWMF and call on the Russian government to reverse this designation.”

The expansion nearly doubles the Local Legal Initiative, building on six years of success supporting local journalism.

“[T]his is a tremendous escalation in the administration’s intrusions into the independence of the press."

Tanvi Valsangikar, RCFP’s inaugural Abrams Legal Fellow, provides free legal services to FRONTLINE and other documentary filmmakers.

The four news organizations are represented by RCFP attorney Paul McAdoo.

Journalist Maya Lau, co-represented by RCFP attorneys, sued LA County for unlawfully investigating her in retaliation for her reporting.

Jennifer Nelson oversees the expansion of RCFP’s pre-publication review program at a time of critical need.

An RCFP attorney since 2014, Adam Marshall now oversees the organization’s expanding litigation docket.

2025 honorees “represent the best of our free press and those who defend it.”