The actions “constituted an egregious affront to the First Amendment right of the press and public to access court proceedings.” The Reporters Committee is condemning both a Louisiana judge’s decision ...
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 ...
If the charges are upheld, federal officials would gain a powerful tool to suppress news reporting in the public interest.
Evan Osnos, left, a Livingston Awards national judge and staff writer at The New Yorker, presents the 2026 Livingston Award for local reporting to William Skipworth, a reporter for the New Hampshire ...
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 ...
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is a U.S. Senate floor vote away from permanently serving as the nation’s top law ...
“The State of Secrecy” was a powerful project that helped shape Indiana’s public access laws into what we know today. In ...
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 ...