The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the 57 undersigned media organizations write in opposition to restrictions on the press during the upcoming Senate impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump.
As we celebrate National Newspaper Week, we are raising awareness about our five First Amendment freedoms, as outlined in the U.S. Constitution — freedom of the press, speech, religion, petition and assembly — and the ways the news media help promote and protect those freedoms. Those five freedoms seem so basic, and we sometimes may take them for granted, but there are surprisingly few channels that allow us to exercise all five freely.
June 28 will always be a hard day for any journalist – that was the day, exactly one year ago, that five newsroom staffers were lost to the hands of a gunman who shot his way into The Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland, barring a grudge against the local paper. While the gunman was later arrested and will soon stand trial, The Capital Gazette is only one of many newsrooms that have faced losses in the past year.
With the release of our newest ad last week, we — along with our Support Real News partners — are responding to recent attacks on the media, highlighting the importance of press access for the preservation of our democracy. In the ad, we called on the public to support press access, noting that the ability of reporters to accurately inform the public depends on their ability to ask questions of those in power.
Today, newspapers fought back against President Trump’s attacks on the media in the the best way they know how: they took to the presses. In a unified voice, they called for an end to these attacks and stressed the importance of quality journalism and a free press to hold our government officials accountable.
I wonder how Facebook’s famous secret algorithms weigh and balance the value of Milo Yiannopoulos’ garbage verses the work of real journalists – like those at the Capital Gazette?
For Free Speech Week, I was going to write about the political climate in the US, but there is an even more egregious attack on the free press happening right now. On Oct. 10, Wall Street Journal staff reporter Ayla Albayrak was wrongly convicted of terrorism charges in Turkey.
Free Press Focus The Alliance has long advocated for First Amendment protections and for an open and transparent government. Journalists
On November 15, 2024, the News/Media Alliance joined the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 26 media organizations in an amicus brief in the New York Court of Appeals in NYP Holdings v. NYPD in support of the lower court’s holding that the repeal of New York Civil Rights Law Section 50-a allows for access to police personnel records regardless of when those records were made.
On October 22, 2024, the News/Media Alliance joined a coalition of media organizations in a letter, led by Freedom of the Press Foundation, to New York District Attorney Gary Pasqua urging him to drop all charges against Indian Time reporter Isaac White, who was arrested at a land claim demonstration in New York on May 21, 2024.
