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The Reporters Committee's work on behalf of journalists spans a variety of issues, from immigration to tech, as well as free ...
An RCFP attorney is representing the news outlet in its effort to access a list of nearly 600,000 Indiana voters sent to U.S.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press attorneys have asked a Florida state court to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against journalist and President of News for Univision Daniel Coronell over an ...
The Second Circuit should reverse a lower court’s decision that contradicts the well-established First Amendment right to ...
When retaliatory investigations burden the press, RCFP argues, the First Amendment requires prompt access to federal courts.
The Reporters Committee regularly submits amicus, or “friend-of-the-court,” briefs in state, federal, and U.S. Supreme Court cases where the news media brings an important perspective. Known for ...
We won’t mince words — the years ahead pose a grave threat to press freedom. Journalists will be on the frontlines as they work to inform the public, but they must not face these threats alone. We ...
Updates: Following the settlement reached between The Oregonian and the city of The Dalles, a Google spokesperson told the Associated Press that the tech company would no longer seek to protect its ...
Citing the "working papers" exemption of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, state officials withheld an email attachment related to policies concerning transgender students. Like every other ...
These days, as professors RonNell Andersen Jones and Sonja West have documented, the U.S. Supreme Court rarely turns its attention directly to press freedom and rarely thinks out loud about the impact ...
The Allegheny County Jail, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Photo by Jake Dabkowski) A First Amendment lawsuit brought by journalist Brittany Hailer has forced Allegheny County to revise policies that ...
The legislation was introduced after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a roundtable discussion on defamation law. (AP photo by Wilfredo Lee) Update: After the defamation legislation failed to pass, ...