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Mississippi State Department of Health policy discriminates against freelance journalists
The department’s new policy restricting freelance journalists from accessing information is unconstitutional. It’s also bad policy.
June 28, 2022
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Reporters Committee
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Stonewalled by Osage Nation officials, Osage News contacts RCFP attorney for help accessing public records
The newspaper's editor says RCFP's local attorney in Oklahoma is like "a human shield and spear.”
June 27, 2022
By
Chris Young
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Freedom of Information
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New York wades into social media regulation waters with ‘hateful conduct’ law
New York is the latest state to attempt to control how social media platforms moderate content.
June 27, 2022
By
Sara Grace Kennedy
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Gillian Vernick
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Content Restrictions
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Federal judge orders Commerce Department to turn over travel records
RCFP attorneys spent six years representing journalist David Yanofsky in his effort to obtain foreign travel data.
June 24, 2022
By
Ceoli Jacoby
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Freedom of Information
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Four years after US Supreme Court’s decision in Carpenter, a Fourth Amendment in disarray?
RCFP examines how lower courts have implemented the Supreme Court's 2018 decision in a case concerning location surveillance.
June 21, 2022
By
Grayson Clary
Categorized in
First Amendment
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NBCUniversal News Group supports Reporters Committee to sustain and grow pro bono legal support for journalists of color
The support will power the continuation of the Race Equity in Journalism Fellowship at RCFP.
June 14, 2022
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Reporters Committee
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Troubling interference with media in Uvalde
Some public officials and private individuals in Uvalde, Texas, have been improperly preventing journalists from doing their job.
June 13, 2022
By
Gabe Rottman
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Newsgathering
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Philadelphia Inquirer investigation reveals PR effort to spin pension fund’s accounting error
RCFP attorneys represented the newspaper in its successful effort to obtain emails from executives of Pennsylvania’s largest pension fund.
June 8, 2022
By
Chris Young
Categorized in
Freedom of Information
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Reporters Committee announces 2022 Freedom of the Press Award honorees
RCFP to present awards to Baine, Khan, Thomas, Woodruff and the Sahan Journal on October 11.
June 7, 2022
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Reporters Committee
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A close look at Justice Alito’s dissent as Supreme Court blocks Texas social media law
Alito drew criticism for raising the state's argument that platforms’ exercise of editorial discretion was in tension with Section 230.
June 6, 2022
By
Gabe Rottman
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Gillian Vernick
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Content Restrictions
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