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South Korea dropped significantly to 62nd place in the annual global press freedom index, down from 47th place the previous year. Meanwhile, North Korea was rated as one of the most brutal persecutors of journalists.

Bipartisan legislation threatens the tax-exempt status of nonprofits that incur the disapproval of government officials.

Student journalists “must be allowed to cover campus protests without fearing for their safety,” the group said.

Recent work from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism and the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership offers recommendations.

Press freedom advocates condemned Carlos Sanchez's arrest and called for the charge against him to be dropped.

The FISA reauthorization bill in the Senate could force delivery personnel, cleaning contractors, and utility providers to become part of the government's domestic spying scheme.

On May 2, join Freedom of the Press Foundation and SEJ for a virtual discussion on obstacles U.S. journalists face when reporting urgent climate change and environmental issues for their communities — whether violence or arrest when covering environmental protests or denials of access and legal obstructions when investigating centers of political and corporate power. Q&A to

X owner Elon Musk finds himself in the middle of an internal Brazilian affairs after judge Alexandre de Moraes allegedly sought to weaponize the platform’s content moderation policies against supporters of Jair Bolsanaro.

The latest version of the whistleblowing platform SecureDrop runs on the Qubes operating system. At the Guardian we used the Salt management engine to set up a Qubes environment where journalists could safely interrogate sensitive documents.

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