Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

Breaking down the Gray Lady’s lawsuit against the Pentagon

RCFP's Gabe Rottman explains the legal theories advanced by The New York Times in its lawsuit challenging the Pentagon's new ...
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FCC chairman’s testimony raises ‘serious constitutional concerns’

Despite what FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told Congress, the FCC has limited authority to regulate the licenses of news ...
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Photographer who took photos of neighbors wins legal battle in New York Supreme Court

A New York City family had no basis to sue a photographer who surreptitiously captured images of his neighbors from his own apartment window and later displayed and sold the same images at a public ...
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Champions of the First Amendment: Reporters Committee announces 2025 Freedom of the Press Award recipients

Today, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press announced the recipients of the 2025 Freedom of the Press Awards, hosted this year by Judy Woodruff, senior correspondent and the former anchor ...
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RCFP pushes back against Pentagon policy restricting press access

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is pushing back against a new Pentagon policy that threatens to revoke press passes from journalists covering the Pentagon if they attempt to report ...
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House passes PRESS Act

If you like this post, sign up to get The Nuance newsletter delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday night! For the second time in as many Congresses, the House of Representatives passed last ...
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Encryption of police radio poses dilemma for local governments, journalists

The debate over police radio encryption shows how technology is relevant to First Amendment questions even at the local level. Local governments are starting to encrypt routine police radio ...
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Google uses a lot of water in Oregon’s city of The Dalles. Soon we’ll know how much.

Updates: Following the settlement reached between The Oregonian and the city of The Dalles, a Google spokesperson told the Associated Press that the tech company would no longer seek to protect its ...
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Public radio journalist Josie Huang reaches $700,000 settlement with LA County, Sheriff’s Department

A screen capture from Josie Huang's cellphone recording shows sheriff's deputies moments after they tackled the journalist to the ground on Sept. 12, 2020. (Courtesy of Josie Huang) Josie Huang, a ...
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Overclassification is an even bigger problem in an age of leak-hunting

Earlier this month, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press created a visualization of the uptick over the last decade in news media “leak” prosecutions — that is, criminal cases against ...
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Amid Black Lives Matter protests, a crushing moment for journalists facing record attacks, arrests at the hands of law enforcement

Police aggressions against journalists covering the protests have proved to be an inflection point for violence against the news media. Ignited by the May 26 police killing of George Floyd, the 2020 ...