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Reporters Committee statement on subpoenas seeking New York Times reporters’ testimony

Several New York Times journalists received subpoenas seeking their testimony before a grand jury.
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Weber v. City of Allentown

Background: In April 2026, The Morning Call reporter Lindsay Weber filed a request under Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know Law ...
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Memphis judge blocks juvenile court from unlawfully shutting reporters out of proceedings

A Tennessee judge has blocked the juvenile court in Memphis, Tennessee, from enforcing a policy that unlawfully shuts journalists out of juvenile delinquency proceedings, a decision that could result ...
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How free legal support from RCFP helped ProPublica uncover SpaceX’s foreign investors

ProPublica reported last month that a middleman firm helped private investors with addresses in China, Hong Kong, and Russia buy stakes in Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX, including a businessman ...
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It’s time for Congress to reform FOIA. Here’s how RCFP would do it.

A decade after the last FOIA reform, RCFP shares its wishlist for improving the well-intended but deeply flawed law. The U.S. Capitol (Photo by Kevin Burkett, via Flickr) This post originally appeared ...
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A New York school district started ignoring a local journalist. A letter from RCFP got it to stop.

Journalist Michael Balter had been covering the Croton-Harmon Union Free School District for several months when school officials went silent in the spring of 2024. The school district in Westchester ...
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Celebrating the power of the press: Reporters Committee announces 2026 Freedom of the Press Award winners

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press today announced the recipients of the 2026 Freedom of the Press Awards, which recognize the accomplishments of leaders in the news media and legal ...
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Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press v. U.S. Department of Justice

Background: In March 2026, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press filed Freedom of Information Act requests seeking records from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S.
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Penn State University ‘gag’ policy violates First Amendment, newsrooms argue in lawsuit

Attorneys from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press are representing three news outlets in a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a Pennsylvania State University policy ...
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Illinois lawmakers pass bill aimed at protecting public media outlets at public universities

Update: In June 2026, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the legislation into law. Illinois lawmakers have passed a first-of-its-kind bill intended to insulate non-student public media organizations run ...
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DOJ subpoenas targeting Wall Street Journal, other news outlets ‘pose a serious threat for press freedom’

On May 11, The Wall Street Journal reported that federal prosecutors subpoenaed its journalists as part of a federal leak investigation in connection with its reporting on U.S. military action against ...