• Featured • Journalism • Original • Press Freedom • Resistance • Social Media • Technology

    Technology: The Frontline of the Battle for Free Speech

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media

    Essential to maintaining a resistance media capacity will be the ability to successfully wage a running battle with those entities that would seek to surveil, disrupt, censor and destroy opposition voices.

    Published On: 06/18/2025

  • Featured • Journalism • Original • Press Freedom • Resistance • Safety • Social Media • Threat Management

    America’s Press Freedom is Under Attack

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media

    The environment for press freedom in the United States is entering a perilous new phase. The attacks have been unprecedented, widespread and continue to escalate.

    Published On: 06/16/2025

  • Featured • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended

    The Rise of State Media in Trump’s America

    Olga Lautman

    olgalautman.substack.com

    The White House launches a taxpayer-funded “news wire” to push state propaganda

    Published On: 05/15/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Pope Leo XIV asks journalists to use communication as a tool for peace

    Sarah Ventre

    NPR

    We must say 'no' to the war of words and images; we must reject the paradigm of war,"

    Published On: 05/12/2025

  • Press Freedom • Social Media

    Noise and Silence in Authoritarian Propaganda

    Ruth Ben-Ghiat

    Lucid

    How autocrats protect their claims to be the sole arbiters of truth

    Published On: 05/08/2025

  • Press Freedom • Social Media

    Streamer detained at the border and questioned for hours

    Taylor Lorenz

    usermag.com

    Piker's detention occurs against a backdrop of increasing scrutiny of political activists and commentators, especially those who challenge the administration’s policies on Israel.

    Published On: 05/07/2025

  • Press Freedom • Safety

    A Russian journalist’s escape from Moscow to Paris

    RSF

    Reporters Without Borders

    Exhausted but free, Ekaterina Barabash recounted her escape from the Russian authorities, who put her on their wanted list as she faced up to ten years in prison.

    Published On: 05/05/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    They’re Coming for the Truth-Tellers: Bondi’s Plan to Jail Journalists

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    Most alarming part of all is what Bondi reportedly wants to do next. According to sources close to the Justice Department, she has argued that leakers — or even reporters — who provide information that she doesn’t like could be prosecuted for treason, a crime that carries the death penalty.

    Published On: 05/02/2025

  • Global • Journalism • Press Freedom

    RSF World Press Freedom Index 2025

    RSF

    Reporters Without Borders

    The global state of press freedom is now classified as a “difficult situation” for the first time in the history of the Index.

    Published On: 05/02/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    The loss of editorial freedom at 60 Minutes is a sorry milestone

    Margaret Sullivan

    The Guardian

    As with so many of the red alerts – lawsuits, threats, changes in long-held practices that protect the public’s right to know – the problem involves Donald Trump’s overweening desire to control the media.

    Published On: 05/01/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Alarm bells: Trump’s first 100 days

    Katherine Jacobsen

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    The United States is now at a critical juncture concerning both the future of freedom of the press and democratic institutions more broadly.

    Published On: 04/30/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Take It or Leavitt

    Aida Alami

    Columbia Journalism Review

    In place of legitimate reporters, Leavitt has invited newcomers who transform the press pool into a casting call for a Trump-era Miss USA.

    Published On: 04/29/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Is the Press Next?

    Robert Kuttner

    The American Prospect

    As Trump tries to destroy one free institution after another—universities, law firms, independent public agencies, trade unions—sooner or later he will come for the press.

    Published On: 04/22/2025

  • Press Freedom

    Journalist Safety Advisory: Traveling to the US

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    CPJ

    Educate yourself on border security protocols and learn about your rights when encountering law enforcement at border crossings.

    Published On: 04/17/2025

  • Press Freedom

    ‘I have always acted within the law’

    Meduza

    Meduza

    Who are the four Russian journalists jailed for their alleged work with Navalny's organization?

    Published On: 04/16/2025

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