If the charges are upheld, federal officials would gain a powerful tool to suppress news reporting in the public interest.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is a U.S. Senate floor vote away from permanently serving as the nation’s top law ...

Background: Following their coverage of an immigration enforcement protest at a Minnesota church in January 2026, independent journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon were arrested by federal ...

“The State of Secrecy” was a powerful project that helped shape Indiana’s public access laws into what we know today. In ...

A Reporters Committee attorney helped Blue Surveillance obtain video documenting an officer holding a gun to an unarmed man’s head. A screen grab from police bodycam footage obtained by Blue ...

New reporting from The New York Times indicates that a freelancer has been fighting a subpoena he received in February of this year after reporting about a failed Navy SEAL Team 6 mission that took ...

This post originally appeared in The Nuance, the Reporters Committee’s newsletter on legal and policy issues at the forefront of a free press. Sign up today! The U.S. Department of Defense is seeking ...

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security published a new rule limiting the duration of visas for foreign journalists working in the United States. While visas currently allow foreign ...

The Reporters Committee is urging the Federal Communications Commission to reject petitions seeking to deny the renewal of Disney’s broadcast licenses for several of its ABC stations, raising concerns ...

In response to the decision by the U.S. Department of Justice to withdraw subpoenas issued to New York Times reporters after a hearing today, Reporters Committee President Bruce D. Brown made the ...