On July 1st, the Supreme Court vacated the lower court rulings in the cases of Moody v. Paxton and NetChoice v. Paxton over challenges brought by NetChoice to the Florida and Texas laws governing social media content moderation.
On June 26, News/Media Alliance joined a letter addressed to President Joseph R. Biden asking for journalist Alsu Kurmasheva to be declared as wrongfully detained.
On June 7th, the News/Media Alliance joined an amicus brief in the Texas Supreme Court in support of media organization TV Azteca in a defamation case.
Effective May 25th, Minnesota adopted the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act (UPEPA) to protect journalists and the public against meritless lawsuits meant to prevent the exercise of their First Amendment rights.
The United States Postal Service reported on progress of the Delivering for America (DFA) Plan for the first and second quarters of Fiscal Year 2024 on May 31
The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) approved the Postal Service’s proposal to raise rates for Market-Dominant products on May 30 for compliance; however, the Commission strongly encouraged the Postal Service Board of Governors to not increase rates by the full amount permitted by law.
The News/Media Alliance sent a letter to Sundar Pichai, Chief Executive Officer of Google, expressing serious concerns over Google’s recent unilateral changes to its spam policy, the implementation of which has been highly disruptive and harmful to publishers and their readers alike.
United States Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, sent a follow-up clarification letter to U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, on May 20 regarding pauses on changes at mail processing facilities in the Delivering for America Plan.
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Ranking Member, Jamie Raskin (D-MD), and other members of Congress asked the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) on May 23 to block the July postal rate increases.
The News/Media Alliance worked with United States Senators Peter Welch (D-VT) and Mike Rounds (R-SD) to today’s introduction of a bipartisan bill, the Deliver for Democracy Act, legislation to limit excessive postal rate increases and incentivizing reliable postal service delivery.
