Governmental interference with news

On the Senate floor this week Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., praised new statutory protections for intelligence agency whistleblowers, but expressed…

The U.S. Department of Labor began implementing parts of its new, slightly more-friendly media policy regarding journalists' access to embargoed…

News media executives and free press advocates expressed concern today at a House congressional committee regarding the U.S. Department of…

The U.S. Department of Labor issued stricter procedures last week for media organizations participating in the department-named "press lock-ups," which…

In an Department of Defense memo sent last week to officials and the news media, Assistant Secretary of Defense for…

The Supreme Court will decide next term whether the First Amendment applies to recordings and pictures that depict animal cruelty.…

The Department of Veterans Affairs finally returned a sound card to WAMU radio reporter David Schultz last week after illegally confiscating it at…

The Department of Veterans Affairs returned an audio recording to a Washington, D.C., public radio station on Friday, three days after the equipment was illegally confiscated…

A Washington D.C.-based radio reporter says his audio storage device was inappropriately confiscated Tuesday by Veterans Affairs officials after he interviewed a patient…