Subpoenas

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

The PRESS Act has broad bipartisan support and is a reasonable, common-sense measure to protect the public’s right to know.

“This is a watershed moment,” said Bruce D. Brown, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

The news media guidelines, now under renewed scrutiny, serve as an important federal safeguard for reporter-source confidentiality.

Police aggressions against journalists covering the protests have proved to be an inflection point for violence against the news media.

Attorneys for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press were prepared to defend journalist Jamie Kalven’s newsgathering rights twice…

The DOJ "News Media Guidelines," codified in 28 C.F.R. § 50.10 (the "Guidelines"), govern the collection of records or information…

On Wednesday, Cook County Judge Vincent M. Gaughan quashed a subpoena that could have required reporter Jamie Kalven to disclose…

On Tuesday, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 18 other media organizations filed a brief in support…

What constitutes a waiver of the reporter’s privilege is largely unchartered territory for courts, leaving journalists with little case law…