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Dear Friend of Press Freedom, Attacks on press freedom that used to seem outlandish or unlikely in the United States are happening across the country. Here’s the latest. Targeting student op-ed writers threatens the free press On Wednesday we publish...

Local newspapers play an indelible role in American journalism, reporting some of the country’s biggest stories from its smallest communities. So when authorities in Marion, Kansas, and Clarksdale, Mississippi, attacked their local newspapers for cov...

When LaLiga claimed that Cloudflare’s refusal to enforce its terms against piracy made the company responsible for the unintended consequences of site blocking, legal action was all but inevitable. According to Cloudflare, LaLiga knew that blocking...

Español Earlier this week, the House Judiciary Committee passed H.R. 1526, a bill by Rep. Darrell Issa to prevent courts from issuing nationwide injunctions. This bill could receive a vote on the House floor as early as next week. Senator Josh Hawl...

Chicago journalist Jim DeRogatis is no criminal, but in 2008 he invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying at music superstar R. Kelly’s trial. It’s a strategy that more journalists unfortunately may need to consider. Years earlier, someone sent...

In Brazil, the Ministry of Justice and Public Security were scheduled to meet with National Telecommunications Agency Anatel this week to discuss a persistent piracy problem. Known as Gatonet, these unlicensed and illegal TV networks seem to rely o...

The Royal Air Force (RAF) has conducted at least 518 surveillance flights around Gaza since December 2023, an investigation by Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) for Declassified UK has found. The flights, carried out by 14 Squadron’s Shadow R1 aircraft...

Español Every time you browse the web, you're being tracked. Most websites contain invisible tracking code that allows companies to collect and monetize data about your online activity. Many of those companies are data brokers, who sell your sensit...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Earlier today, Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) published an opinion piece about how India’s revocation of an American journalist’s overseas citizenship to punish him for his reporting was a “not-so-farfetched” cautionary...

Free speech advocates are rightly outraged by the Trump administration’s arrest — no, abduction — of Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil. But it’s shortsighted to view the threat as limited to college students, immigrants, or pro-Palestinian activists....