European Court Rules Press Must Have Access to Immigration Centers
The 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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Shadowed by Impeachment Probe, Trump Fumes at UN Press
One of the most notable changes between President Donald Trump’s press conference capping off the U.N. General Assembly last year and the one that took place on Wednesday can be distilled to a short, otherwise banal sentence.
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Wisconsin Governor Accused of Blacklisting Right-Wing Press
A Wisconsin-based conservative think tank claims in a federal lawsuit that Democratic Governor Tony Evers has barred its reporters from press events, favoring journalists from left-wing news outlets instead.
Read moreJudge Unseals Warrant Used to Search Journalist’s Phone
The public will soon learn what information San Francisco police used to seize a reporter’s phone records in violation of California’s journalist shield law after an 11-page warrant was ordered unsealed Thursday.
Read moreWisconsin Court Affirms Right to Electronic Public Records
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals upheld Wednesday an order requiring a lawmaker to provide electronic copies of emails requested under the state’s open-records law instead of giving only hard copies to the journalist who asked for them.
Read moreSan Francisco Police Union Calls for Chief to Resign
The union representing San Francisco police officers demanded Saturday that its chief resign, accusing him of blaming officers for raids that he ordered to determine who leaked a police report to a freelance journalist.
Read moreSan Francisco Police Chief: Journalist ‘Crossed the Line’
The San Francisco police chief said Tuesday that he respects the news media, but a freelance journalist whose home and office were raided by officers had “crossed the line” by joining a conspiracy to steal a confidential report.
Read moreReporter’s Surveillance Claims Rejected by Fourth Circuit
The Fourth Circuit on Friday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a former CBS News investigative reporter claiming she was spied on by the Obama administration.
Read moreMyanmar Frees Reuters Reporters Jailed for Secrecy Act Crime
Two Reuters journalists who were imprisoned for breaking Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act over reporting on security forces’ abuses of Rohingya Muslims were pardoned and released Tuesday.
Read moreMyanmar Court Rejects Appeal of Jailed Reuters Reporters
Myanmar’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the final appeal of two Reuters journalists and upheld seven-year prison sentences for their reporting on the military’s brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims.
Read moreNews Outlets Vie for Access to Kraft Spa Video
Media outlets from across the country are squaring up for a court battle with New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft over his attempts to block the release of videos that police say show him engaged in sexual encounters at a Florida day spa.
Read moreSouth Dakota Senate Passes Reporter Shield Law
South Dakota is poised to become the 40th state to pass a shield law for journalists and their sources after a bill passed the state Senate on Wednesday.
Read moreJudge Rejects Stone Claims of Mueller Press Leaks
A federal judge on Wednesday denied Roger Stone’s request that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office prove it did not violate a court order sealing the indictment against the longtime Republican operative and former Trump associate.
Read moreEx-Diplomat Warns of Worsening US-Saudi Relations
Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi’s murder last year set diplomatic relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia on edge and months later, the path forward appears no less fraught with complications, a former U.S. ambassador to the kingdom said Thursday.
Read moreExperts Bolster Washington Post Journalist’s Case Against Iran
Expert witnesses took the stand Wednesday for a second day of hours-long testimony in Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian’s case against the Islamic Republic of Iran, where he was held captive for a year and a half.
Read moreWashington Post Journalist Recounts Harrowing Captivity Before Judge
For 18 months, journalist
Jason Rezaian wasted away in captivity. He lost 40 pounds in as many days in an Iranian
solitary confinement cell, suffered from pulmonary illnesses, developed
infections too personal to describe in a public court, and contemplated
suicide. His mother and brother–Mary and Ali Rezaian–described him as “the
life of the party” before his capture, but Rezaian said he’s now an anxious man,
still recovering from lingering trauma three years later.
In a Bloody Year for Journalists, Body Counts Vary
In a year when Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s gruesome murder inspired Time Magazine to honor fallen reporters as “The Guardians,” press freedom monitors are having trouble keeping count of the dead.
Read moreStrasbourg Attack
Bringing the death toll from this week’s Christmas market attack in France to four, authorities confirmed Friday that an Italian journalist injured in the shooting has died.
Read moreItaly Challenges Europe With Budget Plans
The Italian government is pushing ahead with an anti-austerity spending plan that raises alarms it could spark a European financial crisis, while political turmoil deepens under the rule of anti-establishment and far-right parties.
Read moreCNN Sues White House Over Acosta Press Ban
CNN sued President Donald Trump on Tuesday demanding that White House security credentials be returned to correspondent Jim Acosta.
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