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Statement from Freedom of the Press Foundation director of advocacy Seth Stern ap.org/the-definitive…

“The giant corporations should make it their business to defend the First Amendment, or stay the heck out of the news business altogether,” legendary First Amendment lawyer James Goodale warns. Read more in this Q+A with Trevor Timm: freedom.press/issues/legenda…

Conditioning media access on an outlet's immediate adoption and use of the White House's new language is petty, creepy and repressive. Whether it's a 1st Amendment violation will be determined by courts, but it definitely contravenes the ethos of free speech and a free press.

The lack of transparency surrounding DOGE’s efforts is off the charts. The DOGE team members appeared at the agency’s Washington headquarters, and carried out work in a basement conference room where they covered its windows in paper, according to a photograph of their workspace

Legendary First Amendment lawyer James Goodale, who was involved in all four cases The New York TImes Times took to the Supreme Court, didn't mince words when talking to Trevor Timm about Trump's case against CBS News. "This suit is from mars." freedom.press/issues/legenda…

Please read the underlying editorial. It is something you'd see published in any newspaper across the country on any day, without a second thought. Hard to describe how big of a joke this court order is. Embarrassing a judge would even think to issue it.

I can't get over this

A media uproar forced an anti-speech politician to drop his frivolous attack on the free press. Same as in Marion, KS, Atmore, AL, and elsewhere. The press needs to keep fighting back with ink against this kind of bullying. It’s effective and newsworthy. fox13memphis.com/news/mississip…

.Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: "No one’s going to be more — attempt to be more transparent with the American people." Department of Defense 🇺🇸 press office: your request for comment "was deleted without being read."

Each JFK document so far, all you get out of it is: they sat on *this* for 60 years? They have so much contempt for the public.

The enduring press freedom legacy of Max Frankel, who passed away over the weekend at the age of 94: freedom.press/issues/the-end…

This is who Israel murdered today. Our colleague Hossam Shabat.

Really wish Washington journalists were as alarmed about our government waging endless undeclared wars as they are about our government discussing them via text.

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. One piece of misinfo we need to address is the

Daniel Ellsberg kept this book on the front of his bookshelf. Anytime I (or anyone) was in his office, he would implore them to read it it if they hadn't already.

—NYT/WaPo report intel agencies contradict what Trump says publicly —Admin opens leak probe, rips up DOJ media guidelines based on the stories —Freedom of the Press FOIAs the underlying doc. DNI immediately declassifies it(!); it shows Trump is def lying nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/…

Last week, we argued the Trump admin made it easier to spy on journalists in order to chill basic reporting and mislead the public. This week, we obtained an explosive document through FOIA that proves it. freedom.press/the-classified…

On May 9 -- the day before what would have been David's 40th birthday -- the David Miranda Institute (institutodavidmiranda) announced the 2nd annual David Miranda Awards to fund under-funded projects in Rio working on David's life causes. Hosted by the great Brazilian actor Jonathan Azevedo,

We've notified Paramount that Freedom of the Press intends to bring a shareholder derivative lawsuit if it settles with Trump over his ridiculous and unconstitutional lawsuit against CBS News —>> wired.com/story/freedom-…

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