Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday designated one of the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups in the U.S. a “foreign terrorist organization,” following a similar step by Texas last month. #CAIR #Florida apnews.com/article/flor...

The U.S. State Department is instructing its staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking, content moderation or other activities the Trump administration considers "censorship" of Americans' speech. #StateDepartment #Visa #Trump www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

Hong Kong Holds Vote as Officials Move Against ‘Anti-China’ Elements The government is pushing hard to raise turnout in an election overshadowed by a deadly fire and public anger over safety lapses and official accountability. #HongKong #election #China www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/w...

China’s National Security Office in Hong Kong Summons Foreign Journalists The authorities accused “some foreign media” of smearing the government’s response to a fire at a high-rise complex, saying: “Do not say you have not been warned.” #HongKong #China www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/w...

‘Don’t say we didn’t warn you’: China’s national security office in Hong Kong summons international media Senior journalists from several major outlets were summoned by the Office for Safeguarding National Security #HongKong #freepress #pressfreedom #China #media hongkongfp.com/2025/12/06/d...

National Parks Now Free on Trump’s Birthday, but Not on Black Holidays Donald Trump’s war on Black history continues. #Trump #nationalparks newrepublic.com/post/204036/...

San Diego Agrees to Pay $30 Million to Family of Teen Killed by Police Konoa Wilson was 16 when he was fatally shot. The settlement, one of the largest in a police killing, surpasses the $27 million paid to the family of George Floyd. #SanDiego #police www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

White House Escalates Trump Attacks on Press With ‘Media Offenders’ Website and Tipline #WhiteHouse #Trump #media #freepress #pressfreedom time.com/7338411/whit...

New York Times Sues Pentagon Over First Amendment Rights The lawsuit said the Defense Department’s new set of rules for journalists “violates the Constitution’s guarantees of due process, freedom of speech and freedom of the press.” #NYTimes #Pentagon #freepress www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/b...

The Hong Kong Fire: A Crisis in the National Security Era The authorities quickly arrested critics demanding accountability, signaling an expansive use of the security law to silence dissent over nonpolitical tragedies. #HongKong #HongKongFire www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/w...

2025 in Reuters Pictures A Visual Chronicle of the Year’s Most Memorable Moments #photojournalism #photography www.reuters.com/investigates...

White House launches website to excoriate media for ‘biased’ stories Trump administration lists reporting it objects to in latest escalation of attacks on US journalism #Trump #WhiteHouse #journalism #journalists #freepress #pressfreedom www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Don McCullin: Wars have left me with no faith in humanity The celebrated photographer has said the conflicts he has seen over his 60-year career have led him to believe his life’s work has been a waste of time #photojournalism #war www.thetimes.com/uk/photograp...

Oldest living survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre dies at 111 years old Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, died at 111 years old Monday, her grandson Ike Howard told CNN. www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/u...

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Plans to Resign in January Greene, who was elected in 2020, positioned herself as a die-hard Trump supporter until a series of recent ruptures with the president #MarjorieTaylorGreene #Georgia www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

Al Rockoff’s War Is Still Being Fought Rockoff, who risked his life to photograph the brutality of the Khmer Rouge, has struggled ever since. Now he says his historic negatives have been taken from him. #photojournalism #Cambodia #KhmerRouge www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/a...

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings #Signal #immigration #FBI #ICE #NYPD www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Human Drama Affects Many at U.S. Immigration Facility A security guard’s reaction at the sight of a family’s anguish produces a heart-wrenching image #Immigration #ICE niemanreports.org/carol-guzy-i...

Trump called her work ‘genius’. Now this artist documents his deportation push #Immigration #ICE san.com/cc/trump-cal...

Scrappy and underpaid, LA’s independent reporters risk it all to cover the ICE beat Law enforcement physically attacked 72 journalists covering immigration in LA this year #LA #journalism #journalists #freepress #pressfreedom lapublicpress.org/2025/11/indy...

MacKenzie Scott Gives $700 Million to Historically Black Colleges The donations to over a dozen schools come as the Trump administration is directing more funds to the historically Black institutions, too. #HBCU #college #education www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

Ousted Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for crimes against humanity Hasina sentenced in absentia by court in Dhaka over deadly crackdown on student-led uprising last year #Bangladesh #SheikhHasina www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The Campaign to Free Jimmy Lai How a globe-trotting attorney is trying to win the release of the famed Hong Kong publisher. #HongKong #JimmyLai #freepress #pressfreedom #China #Beijing www.thenation.com/article/worl...

He Patrolled the Neighborhoods Where His Sons Were Drawn into Violence Despite Adlone Morris's best attempts, he couldn't keep his sons from joining a gang as teenagers. Now they all work to make Detroit safer. #Detroit www.thetrace.org/2025/11/detr...

‘Never Forgot Me’: How a Monk’s Supporters Helped Him Survive Prison U Pyinya Zawta fled political persecution in Myanmar and has settled in Buffalo. #Myanmar #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/n...

Pioneering U.S. Street Photography, With Vienna in the Background Lisette Model’s candid and cruel portraits spawned an American genre. But the key to understanding her might lie in Europe, where she was born. #photography www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/a...

The Tragic Loss of Teen Vogue Condé Nast folded a beloved magazine that treated youth and feminism as political topics, not trends. #magazine #journalism #media #teenvogue www.cjr.org/feature/the-...

Kansas county to pay more than $3m over police raiding local newspaper Marion county agrees to apologize over 2023 raid that led to national outcry over press freedom, said newspaper’s editor #Kansas #newspaper #freepress #pressfreedom www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Silenced: The War on Journalism A gripping look at journalism’s ultimate sacrifice, told through stories of courage, loss and unwavering conviction. #journalism #freepress #pressfreedom www.aljazeera.com/video/featur...

The Wall Street Journal has pleaded not guilty to the allegedly unlawful firing of Hong Kong journalist Selina Cheng, who has accused the paper of sacking her for taking up leadership of the Hong Kong Journalists Association. #WSJ #HongKong #freepress #pressfreedom hongkongfp.com/2025/11/07/w...

Judge will order federal agents in Chicago to restrict using force against protesters and media #Chicago #ICE #freepress #pressfreedom apnews.com/article/chic...

US boat strikes are crimes against humanity, says former ICC prosecutor #Trump #ICC www.bbc.com/news/article...

My latest piece for the New York Amsterdam News on the current exhibition of the work of Malian photographer Seydou Keïta on view at the Brooklyn Museum: #Photography #Mali #BrooklynMuseum amsterdamnews.com/news/2025/11...

White House Limits Reporters’ Access to Press Secretary’s Office The move broke from generations of precedent and added to the Trump administration’s growing list of restraints on the news media. #WhiteHouse #freepress #pressfreedom www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...

‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy. He reflects on pain, pride and regret #photojournalism #war www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

ICE in courts: How two photojournalists are dealing with the trauma of documenting immigrant detentions at Federal Plaza #ICE #photojournalism www.amny.com/news/photojo...

A U.S. colonel has gone public with his concern that official findings about the 2022 killing of a Palestinian American reporter were soft-pedaled to appease Israel. #Israel #freepress #pressfreedom #ShireenAbuAkleh www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/w...

ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour Trump ally Laura Loomer took credit for Sami Hamdi’s detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’ #ICE #SamiHamdi #freepress #pressfreedom #freespeech www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Gun violence prevention groups disqualified from grants built around their work Trump administration altering program that was a lifeline for pioneering non-profits helping reduce gun violence #Trump #GunViolence #grants www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Don McCullin: ‘None of my photographs made any difference’ The veteran photographer has covered wars, famines and natural disasters during a 60-year career. Now, he’s contemplating closing his darkroom — and dreads the prospect of Nigel Farage #photojournalism www.thetimes.com/uk/photograp...

This story has been years in the making. Thank you to all those who call Brownsville home for talking to me, letting me make photographs, and allowing me into your lives. And thank you to everyone at The Trace for bring this piece to life. www.thetrace.org/2025/10/brow...

Indiana University orders school paper to cease print edition and fires director of student media Editors at the Indiana Daily Student say administration’s move to control news content amounts to censorship #IU #freepress #pressfreedom www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

An AP photographer from Gaza shares the stories behind her images of the war #Gaza #photojournalism #photojournalist #freepress #pressfreedom apnews.com/article/gaza...

Body slamming, teargas and pepper balls: viral videos show Ice using extreme force in Chicago A facility in Broadview, a mostly Black suburb, has become the site of escalation and ‘targeted attacks’ on protesters #Chicago #ICE #police www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Activists Condemn Arrest of NYC Protest Photographer Alexa Wilkinson Wilkinson was charged with a hate crime for social media posts critical of the New York Times’s Israel coverage and for photographing the vandalism of the headquarters. #freepress #pressfreedom hyperallergic.com/1045489/acti...

A photojournalist was taken to a local hospital Tuesday morning after being pushed to the floor by a federal law enforcement officer outside an immigration court in Lower Manhattan. #ICE #freepress #pressfreedom gothamist.com/news/journal...

Judge issues blistering opinion against Trump policy to deport pro-Palestinian students Judge rules non-citizens have the same free speech rights as US citizens under the first amendment #Trump #freespeech www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside the Battle for The Smithsonian Donald Trump’s unprecedented measures to take control of The Smithsonian Institution have rattled staffers, enraged artists, and even put the future of its vast collection in doubt. #Museum #Smithsonian #Trump www.vanityfair.com/news/story/i...

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donates $70m to HBCUs The gift, one of Scott’s largest single donations, will help UNCF build a $370m pooled endowment for its 37 HBCUs #HBCU #UNCF www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Two men arrested in Utah after bomb found under news vehicle Men could face terrorism-related and weapons charges after officials say explosive ‘had been lit but failed to function’ #Utah #freepress #pressfreedom www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...