The 2024 Freedom of the Press Awards will be held on Oct. 16 at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York City. The event is ...

An RCFP attorney helped WHQR obtain agency records related to Chemour’s missed deadline for building a wall to protect a ...

The Reporter’s Recording Guide provides a summary of the recording laws (which restrict the recording and dissemination of phone calls and in-person conversations) and hidden camera laws (which ...

Anti-SLAPP laws provide defendants a way to quickly dismiss meritless lawsuits — known as SLAPPs or strategic lawsuits against public participation — filed against them for exercising speech, press, ...

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press was created in 1970 at a time when the nation’s news media faced a wave of government subpoenas asking reporters to name confidential sources. Read a ...

As RCFP's Gabe Rottman writes, the Section 702 reauthorization measure includes "a big red flag for the press." ...

Background: In April 2023, public radio journalist Melanie Faizer filed a federal Freedom of Information Act request seeking records from the Tennessee Valley Authority, a federally owned agency that ...

The Allegheny County Jail, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Photo by Jake Dabkowski) A First Amendment lawsuit brought by journalist Brittany Hailer has forced Allegheny County to revise policies that ...

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If you like this post, sign up to get The Nuance newsletter delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday night! As readers of this newsletter may recall, Congress last December passed a four-month ...

Short for strategic lawsuits against public participation, SLAPPs have become an all-too-common tool for intimidating and silencing criticism through expensive, baseless legal proceedings. Anti-SLAPP ...