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The First Amendment Handbook provides a basic primer on the laws affecting reporters’ rights to gather and disseminate news.

The Reporters Committee sent a letter to the White House Press Office to express its concern regarding the White House's…

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday unanimously declined to address the First Amendment claims of a protester who was banned from…

The Reporters Committee and several news organizations signed on to a letter to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney protesting…

Two Pennsylvania newspapers, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Patriot News, won the fight to have greater access to prisoner executions,…

A lower court’s decision to allow the government to limit journalists’ observation of wild horse roundups by the Bureau of…

Journalists covering an Arkansas oil spill in a suburban neighborhood said they were threatened with arrests, kicked out of the…

A federal judge in Harrisburg, Pa., ruled Tuesday that a protocol limiting the ability of witnesses to see and hear…

Campaign staffers for presidential candidate Mitt Romney barred a local radio reporter from covering a Republican Wisconsin senator’s stump speech…

The media will be able to view the full execution of an Idaho death row inmate scheduled to be put…