#Press Freedom

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 DOJ asks judge to allow search of Washington Post reporter's phone, laptops — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  The Justice Department (DOJ) is asking a federal judge in Virginia to allow it to conduct its own search of a Washington Post reporter’s seized electronic devices, rather than have the court do the re...

  Related: #Government Surveillance, #Legal Precedent
• 🇺🇸 Russian investigative journalist placed in pre-trial detention — 10/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Judicial Repression, #Authoritarianism
• 🇺🇸 Judge orders Pentagon to let New York Times reporters back in — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Pentagon cheated when it tried to block access to all reporters in order to keep The New York Times out of the building.

  Related: #Government Accountability, #Legal Precedent
• 🇺🇸 Federal judge finds Pentagon in violation of court order to restore reporters' access — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the Defense Department is violating his earlier order to restore access to the Pentagon for reporters, a setback in the administration's efforts to impede the wo...

  Related: #Government Accountability, #Legal Precedent
• 🇺🇸 Judge orders Pentagon to restore press access — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  The Pentagon is obstructing reporters and defying an earlier court order that required it to restore access to credentialed journalists covering the Defense Department, a U.S. judge in Washington rule...

  Related: #Judicial Authority, #Government Transparency
• 🇺🇸 Judge Rejects Hegseth’s Second Attempt to Restrict Reporters at Pentagon — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge gutted a set of rules that were adopted after the court declared an earlier press policy unconstitutional, in a case brought by The New York Times.

  Related: #Government Transparency, #Legal Challenges
• 🇺🇸 US judge orders Pentagon to restore press access — 09/04/2026 [USA] Related: #Government Transparency, #Legal Precedent
• 🇺🇸 A Newspaper Is Raided and a Rights Group Outlawed Amid Kremlin Crackdown — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  As Moscow throttles Russia’s few remaining independent voices, the authorities targeted two of the most prominent, one a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the other headed by a Nobel laureate.

  Related: #Human Rights, #Authoritarianism
• 🇺🇸 Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Wishah, killed by Israeli strike, laid to rest — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Mourners gathered for the funeral of Al Jazeera Mubasher journalist Mohammed Wishah in in Gaza.

  Related: #Media Safety, #Israel-Gaza Conflict
• 🇺🇸 Funeral held for Al Jazeera’s Wishah killed in Israeli strike in Gaza — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  More than 260 journalists have been killed by Israel in Gaza since the start of the genocide in October 2023.

  Related: #Media Safety, #Israel-Gaza War
• 🇺🇸 Israeli strike kills Al Jazeera journalist in Gaza — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  Israeli strike kills Al Jazeera journalist in Gaza

  Related: #Armed Conflict, #Media Safety
• 🇺🇸 Trump Says Journalist at an Unnamed News Outlet ‘Will Go to Jail’ Unless They Reveal Source of Details on Fighter Pilot in Iran — 06/04/2026 [USA]

  President Donald Trump said the “person that did the story” for an unidentified media outlet about the U.S.’s search for a second fighter jet pilot who was missing in Iran after his plane was shot dow...

  Related: #Government-Press Relations
• 🇺🇸 Voice of America Journalists Sue, Saying Trump Officials Interfered in Coverage — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  The journalists said in the complaint that the administration was trying to force them to be a “mouthpiece” and that one official demanded “loyalty” if reporters wanted to “keep their jobs.”

  Related: #Government Interference
• 🇺🇸 Pentagon Press Association calls for immediate restoration of members' credentials after ruling — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  The Pentagon Press Association is pressing for the immediate restoration of journalists' access to the Defense Department after a federal judge on Friday ruled that the federal agency’s media policy w...

  Related: #Military Media
• 🇺🇸 Supreme Court declines to review press freedom case — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  At issue was the 2017 arrest in Texas of a journalist who published news stories about a border agent's public suicide and a car crash.

  Related: #Legal Proceedings
• 🇺🇸 Supreme Court rejects citizen journalist's case against Texas officials who arrested her for reporting — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  The Supreme Court rejected an attempt by citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal to revive her civil rights claim against Laredo, Texas, officials.

  Related: #First Amendment
• 🇬🇧 Pentagon restrictions on press violate First Amendment, judge rules — 21/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The Department of Defense had required reporters to agree to certain rules on what information they could gather in order to maintain access to the Pentagon.

  Related: #Legal Ruling
• 🇺🇸 Striking Down Pentagon Press Limits, Judge Vindicates Independent Journalism — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  The ruling cut deeper than left-versus-right politics, declaring that the policy imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is unconstitutional.

  Related: #Government Accountability
• 🇺🇸 U.S. judge rules against Pentagon restrictions on press coverage — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  The policy required media organizations to pledge not to gather information unless Defense officials formally authorized its release. A U.S. judge said the rules are at odds with the First Amendment.

  Related: #Legal Ruling
• 🇺🇸 US judge sides with New York Times against Pentagon journalism policies — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  In his ruling, Judge Paul Friedman ruled the Trump administration sought to force out 'disfavoured journalists'.

  Related: #Government Policy
• 🇺🇸 Judge strikes down restrictive Pentagon press policy, finding it violates First Amendment — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge has struck down some of the Defense Department's strict controls on how journalists with access to the Pentagon are allowed to report — ending a policy that caused many news outlets to...

  Related: #First Amendment, #Government Transparency
• 🇺🇸 Judge sides with New York Times in challenge to Pentagon policy limiting reporters' access — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge agreed Friday to block the Trump administration from enforcing a policy limiting news reporters' access to the Pentagon, agreeing with The New York Times that key portions of the new r...

  Related: #Government Transparency
• 🇺🇸 Judge rules Pentagon press policy under Hegseth unconstitutional — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge ruled Friday that the Pentagon’s new policy restricting press access violates the First Amendment, siding with The New York Times. “The Court recognizes that national security must be ...

  Related: #Military Policy
• 🇺🇸 Judge Rules Pentagon Restrictions on Press Are Unconstitutional — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge tossed parts of the Pentagon’s restrictions on news outlets, saying they violated the First Amendment, in a lawsuit brought by The New York Times.

  Related: #Military Policy
• 🇺🇸 Judge blocks restrictive Pentagon press access policy — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge blocked the Department of Defense press access policy in a lawsuit by the New York Times.

  Related: #Government Transparency, #Legal Ruling
• 🇺🇸 Judge sides with New York Times in challenge to policy limiting reporters' access to Pentagon — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge agreed Friday to block the Trump administration from enforcing a policy limiting news reporters' access to the Pentagon, ruling that key portions of the new rules are unlawful.

  Related: #Government Transparency
• 🇺🇸 Judge Tosses Out Pete Hegseth’s Press Restrictions That Led To Exodus Of Journalists From Pentagon — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  The Pentagon’s new restrictions on press access violate the First and Fifth Amendment, a federal judge ruled on Friday, delivering a victory to media outlets that left the complex after they refused t...

  Related: #Legal Ruling
• 🇺🇸 Nashville reporter detained by ICE has been released: Lawyers — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  The lawyers for a Columbian journalist reporting in Nashville, who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers earlier this month, said she was released on Thursday. Nashville N...

  Related: #Immigration
• 🇺🇸 Nashville reporter arrested by US ICE has been released, her legal team says — 20/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Immigration
• 🇬🇧 Nashville journalist arrested by ICE released after 15 days in detention — 20/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Colombia-born Estefany Rodríguez, whose detention had alarmed press freedom advocates, freed on $10,000 bond</p><p>The Nashville journalist who was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

  Related: #Immigration Enforcement