2022 Press Freedom Tracker

It’s hard to overstate the significance of the Justice Department’s revised news media guidelines.

The story of 2020’s impact on press freedom was still being written last year, writes RCFP Staff Attorney Grayson Clary.

According to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, 2022 saw five court-ordered prior restraints on journalism.

2022, you could say, was a return to normal. At least what was considered normal before the peak in 2020.