A federal judge ruled on Friday that the Pentagon’s media access policy violated the Constitution, concluding in part that it ...

Last year, RCFP urged courts to block the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle VOA and other federally funded ...

The arrest and detention of non-citizen reporters can serve as a potent means of suppressing newsgathering and reporting.

RCFP attorneys are representing photojournalist Rob Levine in challenging the no fly zone, arguing that it violates the First ...

Through a lawsuit, RCFP attorneys helped Kabas obtain hours of police bodycam footage of the raid. Here’s what it shows. A screen capture from bodycam footage shows two Trump administration officials ...

Background: A West Virginia law enacted in 2021 would, if permitted to take effect, prohibit the disclosure of the home ...

Represented by Reporters Committee attorneys Grayson Clary and Adam A. Marshall, Levine argues that there is no means of ...

A Colorado town has agreed to settle a First Amendment dispute with a local newspaper after an attorney from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press pushed back on the town’s decision to ...

From the Fall 2000 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 13. From the Fall 2000 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 13. Despite taking precautions to avoid the turbulence witnessed at the World ...

This March 19, 1975, file photo shows the Hughes Glomar Explorer, a 618-foot-long salvage ship built by the eccentric industrialist Howard Hughes, at the Long Beach harbor dock in Los Angeles, Calif.

Editor’s note: This analysis was updated on May 2 to reflect the Justice Department’s revised regulation published on May 1. On April 25, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memorandum to all U.S.

Update: The introduction of this post was updated on May 7, 2024. In recent years, mass demonstrations concerning issues like police violence, foreign wars, racial justice, reproductive freedom, and ...