After last night’s State of the Union address, a member of Congress threatened to throw a journalist off the balcony of the Capitol building. Sit with that for a moment.
Tuesday’s court decision, which struck down the FCC’s Open Internet Order and threatened the future of Net Neutrality, has huge implications for the future of journalism and press freedom.
At the end of October, as thousands of activists gathered in Washington, D.C., for the largest U.S. rally against domestic spying, the head of the National Security Agency sent a message to journalists reporting on surveillance and Edward Snowden’s revelations.
Rupert Murdoch just got some bad news from one of his own newspapers.
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Federal Communications Commission is dropping its old plans to allow more media consolidation.
This week, Agence-France Press reported that two Spanish journalists from the nation’s El Mundo newspaper were abducted in Syria back in September. Their colleagues and families believe the two are still alive and are calling for their release.
This week the British Parliament held an anti-terrorism hearing and the main witness was a newspaper editor, Alan Rusbridger.
Rusbridger’s paper, the Guardian, has been under enormous pressure from U.K. authorities for its reporting on U.S. and U.K. mass surveillance programs.
A few weeks ago, Free Press delivered 78,000 petitions calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to protect press freedom and stop the harassment and intimidation of journalists.
