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A journalist was briefly blocked from accreditation at a Trump campaign event this week, raising questions over media freedom.

FREE SPEECHThere were many stories from around the world about struggles and risks to safety, and even life, for journalists in 2023. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker monitors threats to

Screen shot from U.S. Press Freedom Tracker’s 2023 report on arrested and detained journalists By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter In 2023, the United States government armed the Israeli military in an assault and siege on Gaza that has killed over 75 journalists. It has repeatedly been confirmed that military forces targeted journalists—and their families—to eliminate them and their coverage of the war. Despite increased calls from the Australian government and other world leaders to drop t...

"Asking questions, knocking on doors, reporting on local news and newsmakers are all standard journalistic practices. Why, then, would anyone try to criminalize them? Because if the velociraptors taught us anything, it’s to keep throwing yourself at the fence — you never know when the elec…

“Attempts to criminalize routine journalistic activities… send a chill through the heart of newsgathering.”…

While government censorship may worry journalists, so should self-censorship. That’s the warning in this month’s WatchDog Opinion, whether self-censorship’s “chilling effect” is driven by fears of attack, legal or physical, or by distortions in what it means to be fair, a “bothsidesism” usually pushed by one-sided players. But the bottom line, the column argues, is that when

Fighting back is about journalists’ rights, but also the rights of all those who depend on a free press to stay informed. The current political climate is no time to sit back, writes the advocacy director for Freedom of the Press Foundation.

A caterwauling UK Guardian story about Louisiana's elections has picked up some notice around the state, but here's something to note...

Governor-elect Jeff Landry opposes minimum wage, pollution controls, protections for women, LGBTQ+ and Black people

Marion, Kansas (pop. 1,922) is right smack in the middle of nowhere, unless you count Cottonwood Falls (pop. 851) 27 miles to the east. But this tiny farming and cattle