The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government holds a hearing on “Fighting for a Free Press: Protecting Journalists and their Sources” at 9:30 a.m. ET on April 11 to examine the federal government’s infringement on the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of the press, and federal shield law proposals. Witnesses: Catherine Herridge, […]
Tensions are escalating between the world’s two most populous nations. In a string of tit-for-tat actions, India and China have kicked out almost all of each other’s journalists. According to the Wall Street Journal, New Delhi last month refused to extend the visas of two Chinese state media reporters. They were the last of the official […]
Journalists across the U.S. will walk off their jobs next week at roughly two dozen newsrooms run by Gannett, the largest newspaper chain in the U.S., their union said Thursday. The mostly one-day strike, which will start June 5, aims to protest Gannett’s leadership and cost-cutting measures imposed since its 2019 merger with GateHouse Media. […]
PARIS—French international news agency Agence France-Presse says its Ukraine video coordinator was killed Tuesday during a rocket attack near the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Arman Soldin, 32, was with a team of AFP journalists traveling with Ukrainian soldiers when the group came under fire with Grad rockets, the agency said. The rest of the […]
Elon Musk has reinstated journalists’ accounts that were earlier suspended for allegedly doxxing his location in real-time, with the temporary suspensions earning the Wikipedia monicker “Thursday Night Massacre” and fueling questions over press freedom on the platform. After Twitter updated its policy prohibiting sharing people’s location in real-time—known as doxxing—due to personal safety risks, nine […]
Elon Musk has clarified Twitter’s recently revised doxxing policy after running a poll that asked users to weigh in on when to reinstate the suspended accounts of journalists who allegedly violated the policy by sharing Musk’s real-time location and “endangering” his family. Twitter on Thursday announced changes to its Private Information policy—commonly referred to as its […]
Elon Musk’s Twitter suspended the accounts of multiple journalists, including from The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN, on Thursday after they allegedly violated the platform’s terms of service. The accounts that were suspended belonged to CNN’s politics and tech correspondent Donie O’Sullivan, The New York Times’ technology reporter Ryan Mac, The Washington […]
Hundreds of reporters, editors, and other employees at The New York Times launched a 24-hour walkout on Thursday, arguing that discussions between their union and the company have stalled. This is the first strike of its size and scale at the newspaper in 40 years. “Over 1,100 New York Times workers are now officially on […]
Turkish lawmakers have voted to adopt a law that aimed at preventing “disinformation” in the media and online, despite widespread concerns about the measure’s potential to quash free speech. Lawmakers from President Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), which together have a majority, voted in parliament on Thursday […]
The CIA and its former Director Mike Pompeo have been sued by a group of journalists and lawyers who claim the agency spied on them when they visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while he was living inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. The lawsuit, which also names Spanish security firm Undercover Global as a defendant, was […]
Two Reuters journalists were injured and a driver killed on Friday after the vehicle they were in came under fire while heading to the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk, the latest battle line in Russia’s assault on Ukraine. Photographer Alexander Ermochenko and cameraman Pavel Klimov were traveling in a car provided by Russia-backed forces on […]
Journalists that investigated the use of spyware known as Pegasus have won the top award at the European Union’s prize for journalism. A group of 17 associations were involved in the investigation, led by Paris-based journalism group Forbidden Stories. British newspaper The Guardian was among those 17. Some governments used Pegasus, developed by an Israeli company, […]
The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to two journalists, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia. Ressa, a Philippines journalist, became the first Filipino to win the peace prize, and also the first woman to claim the prestigious award by the Nobel committee […]
From covering displaced refugees around the globe to the obstacles faced by protesters seeking change in America, freelance photojournalist Maranie Staab believes her camera can be a force for truth and social justice. The work of a “conflict photographer” often requires physical courage in places she has reported from, such as Africa and the Middle […]
The Taliban terrorist group fired a volley of gunfire into the air on Tuesday to disperse a large protest that was held in Kabul, while also arresting several journalists who covered the demonstration, according to reports. Thousands of Afghan men and women rallied in the streets of the Afghan capital to protest against the Taliban and […]
The Biden administration has given no access to observe or report on Customs and Border Protection (CPB) operations at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to an award-winning photographer and journalist. Getty Images correspondent John Moore alleged there is a lack of transparency along the border. Last week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated that Secretary Alejandro […]
BEIJING—China used coronavirus prevention measures, intimidation, and visa curbs to limit foreign reporting in 2020, ushering in a “rapid decline in media freedom,” the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) said on Monday. For the third year in a row, no journalists told the group that working conditions had improved, the FCCC said in an […]
Reporters without Borders—or RSF—says since the outbreak in the first months of 2020, the Chinese regime has escalated its silencing of the press, arresting at least 10 journalists and commentators who reported on the crisis. Seven of them remain detained or missing to this day. Head of RSF’s office in Taiwan, Cedric Alviani says informing […]
President Donald Trump on Dec. 23 signed a bill into law authorizing a memorial dedicated for fallen journalists. The Fallen Journalist Memorial Act (H.R. 3465), passed through Congress with bipartisan support on Dec. 2, authorizes the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation (FJM) to establish an effort to build a first-of-its-kind privately funded memorial on federal lands in […]
