The News/Media Alliance joined an amicus brief on December 16, 2024 in the Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in support of LCMedia Productions in a public records disclosure case.
President Trump announced his America First Trade Policy on Inauguration Day, January 20, stating that he plans to enact 25%
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held an oversight hearing, “Understanding Proposed Service Changes” on December 5.
The News/Media Alliance applauds Representatives Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Kevin Kiley (R-CA) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) for introducing the Free Speech Protection Act, which would provide protections on the federal level from strategic lawsuits against public participation (“SLAPPs”) designed to chill free speech.
On November 4, 2024 the News/Media Alliance joined an amicus brief in Valdez v. United States, in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, in support of a challenge to the trial court’s use of a “husher.”
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.
A Texas federal judge struck down a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rule on November 15 that would have expanded overtime eligibility to about four million new workers.
The prohibition on misrepresenting information with respect to a negative option/automatic renewal offer will become effective in 60 days.
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.
