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From the Winter 2009 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 29. It may be buried now in the recesses of our collective 2008 presidential election memory, but...

The Committee to Protect Journalists and two Angola-based media rights organizations have made a joint submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council,...

Government red tape entangled volunteers creating a radio station for Katrina evacuees. From the Fall 2005 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 10. By...

A Hungarian journalist at abcug.hu, an online news portal, was denied access to two Hungarian refugee camps. A report by the Hungarian Commissioner for...

Newspapers uncovering sealed cases in Washington and Nevada faced reluctant judges, bureaucratic hurdles and lawsuit threats. From the Spring 2007 issue of The...

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From the Fall 2002 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 49.

From the Winter 2008 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 21. The Reporters Committee operates a toll-free hotline for journalists with questions about free...

'McLibel' verdict a mixed bag for McDonalds 06/30/97 ENGLAND--McDonald's Corp. was awarded $98,000 (U.S.) in mid-June in a libel case brought against two...

The Virginia House of Delegates got one step closer to passing legislation that would allow the University of Virginia to keep private the names of donors who...

U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema Tuesday criticized the government's secrecy in the case of a prominent Muslim spiritual leader from Fairfax County who...

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Azerbaijan, one of the 10 Most Censored Countries in the world, according to new research by the Committee to Protect Journalists, is to host the first-ever...

UPDATE: Access to Executions03/11/96 A Marin County Superior Court judge in mid-February refused to issue a preliminary injunction to place the San Francisco...

Publisher sues mayor for throwing away newspapers11/06/95 NEW JERSEY--A weekly newspaper in Elizabeth filed a lawsuit in federal District Court in Newark in...

The Reporters Committee submitted administrative comments to the Department of Labor recommending that it modify its Privacy Act routine uses so that OGIS can...

AS THE MAJOR POLITICAL COALITIONS CAMPAIGNED VIGOROUSLY in anticipation of the 2001 presidential elections, independent journalists enjoyed relative freedom in...

Judge orders release of testimony from Hiss case 05/31/99 NEW YORK--In a rare ruling, a federal district judge in Manhattan ordered in mid-May that the federal...

OHIO--A former lawyer for Chiquita Brands International who admitted to helping a reporter obtain voice-mail messages illegally from the banana company that...

The celebration Tuesday of the 50th anniversary of the Association of European Journalists (AEJ) should have been a joyful and lighthearted affair. Dozens of...

Nov 10, 2025 - The Committee to Protect Journalists and partner organizations expressed strong support on Thursday for independent journalists in Hungary and highlighted the...

Journalists who report on sensitive issues such as drug trafficking, government corruption, and land conflicts face frequent threats and attacks in a nation so...

Press release "Basel Committee coordinates policy and supervisory response to Covid-19", 20 March 2020

Despite the Czech Republic's status as a leading candidate to join the European Union, local journalists continue to face significant risks for criticizing...

Legal experts are warning that a Tennessee bill signed into law earlier this month could subject news organizations to criminal prosecutions if they publish...

The latest issue of India's Tehelka weekly magazine carries some great reporting on press freedom issues, an effort supported by CPJ and the John S. and James...

Trip comes amid concern about climate for media in US Washington, D.C., January 10, 2018--CPJ and IFEX will lead a delegation of global press freedom groups on...

More and more courts are making oral arguments available on the Web From the Spring 2005 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 31. By Andrew Brenner State...

Courthouse News Service (CNS) has asked the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to grant a motion for summary judgment in a case CNS...

Your Excellency: A delegation from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) visited Harare from July 11 to 14 to assess press freedom conditions in Zimbabwe...

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) paid over $64,000 in damages to Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) in the first installment of what the GOP congressman said amounted to...

Newspapers win access to hospitalization hearings 03/22/99 VERMONT--In early March, the state Supreme Court in Montpelier unanimously held that reporters for...

New York, February 27, 2012--Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa announced today that he would pardon several news managers and journalists he had sued for...

Stories from today's national press

With the commercialization of the press, the rapid spread of the Internet, and international condemnation of a government cover-up of the SARS virus, the new...

Classified documents admitted into evidence in the trial of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee accused of mishandling...

A House Government Affairs subcommittee approved the OPEN Government Act, a Freedom of Information Act reform measure, adding a provision calling for the...

Opinion column not defamatory, Utah court rules 04/05/1994 UTAH -- The Utah Supreme Court ruled in late March that a newspaper did not defame a mayor when it...

Your Excellency, The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply disturbed by your government's recent harassment of several new independent media...

Bill Lawson offers a harrowing first-person account of his arrest earlier this week while covering a residential house fire for the Maumelle [Ark.] Monitor. In...

by Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Chair of the NATO Military Committee