"A federal judge ripped into the Justice Department on Friday for failing to inform him of the applicability of a law intended to protect journalists from government searches and seizures when it asked him for permission to raid a Washington Post reporter’s home." tinyurl.com/4rt9a45v

“The government must preserve but must not review any of the materials that law enforcement seized… until the Court authorizes review of the materials by further order,” the magistrate judge wrote. tinyurl.com/ee82u955

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“The attack on the press did not start with my arrest,” Fort said. “If you stand for truth, I need you to stand up today. And not just for me. And not just for all journalists. But for anyone who is having their First Amendment violated.” tinyurl.com/4dj7enbp

"Americans find it harder to stay informed about their neighborhoods, towns, and cities than about national and international news, according to a new study released today by the Civic Information Needs Census (CINC)." tinyurl.com/5n8jy24s

Washington Post publisher Will Lewis said Feb. 7 that he would step down, ending a troubled tenure three days after the newspaper said it was laying off a third of its staff. tinyurl.com/aj22my5a

"What is the everyday experience of working at a journalism coop like — and how does that change depending on size, scope, and location? www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/jour...

“It’s just devastating news for anyone who cares about journalism in America and, in fact, the world,” said Margaret Sullivan, former media columnist at the Post. “The Washington Post has been so important in so many ways, in news coverage, sports and cultural coverage.” tinyurl.com/2v8jnkej

"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution announced Tuesday evening that it will lay off approximately 50 employees as part of a cost-cutting effort aimed at repositioning the company for future growth." tinyurl.com/bdzhr696

Kari Lake has accelerated her use of the U.S. government-owned network to promote President Trump and his views — in possible violation of federal law and policies. tinyurl.com/3r4chnn8

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"Journalists should be telling these disastrous and consequential stories with clarity, tough reporting and a reliance on verifiable facts." tinyurl.com/4xpv6m8y

House committee subpoenas a journalist and falsely claims that his identifying a U.S. commander in Venezuela amounted to "leaking classified intel." wapo.st/3NzELX8

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette‘s owners announced Jan. 7 that the newspaper would shut down in a few months. tinyurl.com/3hharffv

“CPB’s final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attacks,” said Patricia Harrison, the organization’s president and CEO. tinyurl.com/bdhex6e6

"The New York Times urged the U.S. District Court in Washington on Monday to rule in its favor in a case that the company brought last month against the Pentagon and that is now on track to be heard by a judge in March." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b...

"Journalists and their news organizations can show their patriotism by doing their jobs of seeking the truth, no matter who it offends." tinyurl.com/4mr2p2ds

"Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died. He was 91." tinyurl.com/yeys2cw4

"The head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission faced criticism on Wednesday from Democrats at his first appearance before Congress after pressuring broadcasters to take ABC late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel off the air in September." tinyurl.com/2tj9x56h

“It is truly astonishing that this was allowed to go forward at all,” one Post editor wrote in Slack messages. “Never would I have imagined that the Washington Post would deliberately warp its own journalism and then push these errors out to our audience at scale.” tinyurl.com/3zne6384

"The Washington Post has used AI to build a pick-your-own-format news podcast, letting listeners choose the topics, hosts and length to create custom versions." tinyurl.com/yd7rw7xj

The New York Times, attacked by President Donald Trump for reporting about his physical condition, said on Wednesday that it wouldn’t be deterred by “false and inflammatory language” that distorts the role of a free press. tinyurl.com/zy7ayu8b

“It may be easy to follow the most popular news influencers out there, but is it possible to trade out that consumption for one who is in your community?” www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/de-i...

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"Since the last RSF round-up, published on 1 December 2024, 67 journalists have been killed because of their work. At least 79% of them were victims of armed forces or paramilitary groups (37 journalists) and criminal networks (16 journalists)." tinyurl.com/yc5hryj8

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“President Trump increasingly appears to be exercising direct control over CBS’s editorial decisions, destroying CBS’s ‘journalistic integrity’ while violating its right to be free from governmental coercion and manipulation,” Rep. Jamie Raskin wrote. tinyurl.com/yyepw3ha

“The policy is an attempt to exert control over reporting the government dislikes,” said Charles Stadtlander, spokesman for the New York Times. tinyurl.com/3p3hu6rd

Patsy Widakuswara, who led Voice of America’s White House coverage until March and has joined other employees in suing the administration, said the planned office closures were “another nail in the coffin” for the broadcaster. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

“Denying access to briefings to credible and nonpartisan news media that routinely cover the Pentagon is not conducive to transparency for the American public, who fund the department’s budget to the tune of many hundreds of billions of dollars per year,” said Marc Lavine. tinyurl.com/2n475d4j

“This ruling is a clear affirmation that AI cannot be deployed as a shortcut around union rights, ethical journalism, or human judgment,” said Ariel Wittenberg, unit chair of the PEN Guild. tinyurl.com/5n6suzh4

"Brendan Carr, President Donald Trump’s top TV regulator, has landed in the center of another media fight — this time between two powerful groups of Trump-friendly news executives, each pushing him to tilt the law in their favor." tinyurl.com/5n98u6h8

“If you use AI, you have to have a human in the loop,” said Jonathan Van Fleet, editor of the Concord Monitor. tinyurl.com/2s4z5mew

“Choosing not to collect and make public data about these identity groups doesn’t just inhibit our ability to analyze or produce knowledge about them — it effectively erases their existence in records,” wrote Nik Usher. “The known becomes unknown and uncounted.” tinyurl.com/jnabc4jk

“Letting the government control which journalists can cover the highest office in the land and setting rules about what those journalists can say or write is a direct attempt to undercut the First Amendment,” wrote Julie Pace, AP's executive editor. “It should worry all of us.” tinyurl.com/2av65k32

Today, Nov. 24, The Associated Press will be back in court to defend itself against the White House and standing up for the right to speak and report freely without government retaliation. AP Executive Editor Julie Pace has written an op-ed about why AP has taken this stand. tinyurl.com/mwkyupka

"Senior White House officials have discussed internally their preference for Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Bros Discovery in recent weeks, and one official has discussed potential programming changes at CNN with Larry Ellison, the largest shareholder of Paramount." tinyurl.com/mskpnjx

Trump’s conduct — when he lost the 2020 election but claimed he won, and attempted to stay in power — is “susceptible to multiple subjective interpretations, including CNN’s,” the judges wrote. Thus, it is “not readily capable of being proven true or false.” tinyurl.com/ysrcrfax

“President Trump has Jamal Khashoggi’s blood on his hands,” said Raed Jarrar, advocacy director for DAWN, a U.S.-based group advocating for democracy and human rights in the Arab world that was founded by Khashoggi. tinyurl.com/2s49jk6m

"The settlement is a victory for editorial independence and a step toward upholding the First Amendment rights of NPR and the public media system in our legal challenge to [Trump's] Executive Order," Katherine Maher, President and CEO of NPR, said in a statement. tinyurl.com/33htymrx

“I want to say that this wasn’t just an attack on me. It was an attack on the freedoms of ordinary Americans and citizens worldwide. It was an attack on their freedom to speak the truth in the face of hatred,” Hamdi said shortly after he returned back to the UK. tinyurl.com/bdeztwv6

“Wielding the news distortion policy, the FCC has already opened or threatened to open investigations against private broadcasters due to disagreements with editorial decisions or statements made in a comedic monologue,” the petition said. tinyurl.com/2s8a8s42

ProPublica's review found that Fox News repeatedly provided a misleading picture of what was happening in Portland. tinyurl.com/ma8fahm3

“They intentionally wanted to harass us for reporting the news, and you’re not supposed to do that in a democracy,” the newspaper's editor and publisher, Eric Meyer, said Nov. 11. tinyurl.com/3upcae6r

"British Muslim journalist Sami Hamdi, who has been held by US federal immigration for over two weeks, is set to be released and allowed to return to the UK." tinyurl.com/3tea3vhz

“[AI] excels at analyzing large data sets, organizing notes, checking spelling and grammar, even pointing out possible flaws in a story,” said Stephen Adler, a former editor in chief of Reuters. “But, as with much of technology, it comes with significant risks.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

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