U.S. 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.

Fenit Nirappil worked for the Medill Innocence Project nine years ago. He’s now being subpoenaed for his sources, school work.

The fourth annual report reveals the startling extent of police violence against journalists during a year of protest.

RCFP is urging AG Merrick Garland to “examine whether force, arrests … have been misused to chill legitimate journalistic work.”

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies violently arrested the KPCC reporter while she was lawfully covering a protest on Sept. 12.

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

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