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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 the

"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.”…