Governor Andrew Cuomo warned New Yorkers in his daily press briefing Tuesday to buckle up for a long fight in the coronavirus pandemic. Nobody knows when things will go back to normal, he said.
Read moreAs California courts scramble to comply with a statewide shelter-in-place order, First Amendment advocates and press groups are asking Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye to ensure that the media and public can still cover court hearings, which are ongoing, and review new court records, which continue to be filed.
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A federal judge has denied a bid by freelance journalists and photographers to block parts of a California labor law designed to require gig economy companies to offer employee status and benefits to their workers.
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An attorney for a Playboy reporter warned the D.C. Circuit on Monday during unorthodox teleconference oral arguments that the White House revoking his client’s press pass is particularly alarming during the Covid-19 outbreak.
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Freelance journalists in California have lost job opportunities and seen their First Amendment rights violated under a new law meant to help freelancers in the tech and ride-hail industries, but state officials argue any setbacks reporters experience are not attacks on anyone’s speech.
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Freelance journalists may soon breathe a sigh of relief after California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez announced amendments had been made to her controversial independent contractor law by removing the cap on the number of submissions freelancers could send to an outlet.
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Several Kentucky Catholic school students involved in last year’s videotaped confrontation with a Native American elder at the Lincoln Memorial filed a defamation lawsuit Tuesday against New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman and others, claiming their tweets about the incident sparked harassment and threats.
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Jim Lehrer, longtime host of the nightly PBS “NewsHour” whose serious, sober demeanor made him the choice to moderate 11 presidential debates between 1988 and 2012, has died, PBS said Thursday. He was 85.
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An American photojournalist kidnapped during Syria’s civil war accused an overseas bank of funding his captors in a federal lawsuit filed Monday evening.
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The opening of a trial where a politically connected Slovakian businessman stands accused of ordering the murder of a young investigative journalist in 2018 is shining more light on the entanglement of politics and corruption in Europe.
Read moreA Los Angeles judge denied a freelance reporter organization’s request to block a new law that will hamper the livelihood of contractors in California.
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A former foreign correspondent for “60 Minutes” claims in a $25 million defamation lawsuit that she lost her job on the CBS news show because New York magazine published a hit piece about her story on the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi.
Read moreWhat began with a youth football league’s fundraiser gone bad led to the Tennessee Supreme Court deciding on Thursday the fair report privilege – the privilege protecting journalists reporting on what is said during official government proceedings from defamation claims – doesn’t extend to journalists reporting on what officials tell them in one-on-one interviews.
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An investigation into the car-bomb killing of a Maltese anti-corruption journalist has led to the arrest of the prime minister’s former chief of staff.
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A federal judge on Friday ordered Iran to pay $179 million in damages to Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian, who spent 544 days in an Iranian prison after being falsely accused of being an American spy.
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A prominent and politically connected Maltese businessman was arrested Wednesday morning in connection with the murder of an anti-corruption journalist in 2017, sending shockwaves across the small island nation and prompting demands for its prime minister to resign.
Read moreThe mystery of who was behind the murder of a Maltese anti-corruption journalist may be closer to being solved after a suspected middleman in her killing was arrested last week.
Read moreA Dutch journalist was released from jail Friday after being held in contempt of court for refusing to answer questions about a source.
Read moreA district attorney declined Thursday to criminally charge the speaker of the Texas House over a secret recording that revealed he offered a conservative activist press credentials in exchange for attacks on fellow Republican lawmakers he deemed too moderate.
Read moreThe European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that denying journalists access to centers for asylum seekers violates their right to freedom of expression.
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