covering protests

“No journalist should be arrested or prosecuted simply for doing their job,” said RCFP Executive Director Bruce Brown.

Requests to the Reporters Committee’s legal hotline spiked dramatically in 2020, as journalists covered the pandemic, protests.

In June, RCFP supported the news outlets’ fight against the subpoena, arguing that it violated Washington’s shield law, First Amendment.

As we transition to a new team of fellows this fall, and celebrate almost one year of publishing this newsletter,…

Reporters Committee resources do not support conclusion that officers couldn’t reasonably know reporter wasn’t a protester

The Reporters Committee is tracking curfew violation incidents involving members of the news media.

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 115 media and press freedom organizations sent a letter last week to officials…

The letter urges the mayor, police commissioner to implement measures to protect reporters covering protests.

As nationwide protests continue in the wake of the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a…

Over 100 media and press freedom organizations signed on to the Reporters Committee’s letter to Minnesota officials.