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.
The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) determined on October 22 that a U.S. industry is materially injured by imports of aluminum lithographic printing plates from China and Japan that the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) established are sold at less than fair value and subsidized by the government of China.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced their final Rule on October 16 regarding Negative Option programs. The Alliance advocated for numerous changes to the proposal in comments, letters, and three follow-up meetings with the FTC.
On October 3, 2024, the News/Media Alliance joined a coalition of news media organizations in a letter to senior policymakers urging the Administration to prioritize the publication of a proposed rulemaking to enable routine unmanned aircraft system (“drones”) beyond visual line of sight (“BVLOS”) operations in the U.S. national airspace system.
On October 8, 2024, the News/Media Alliance joined letters of support for the ‘Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act’ (PRESS Act), led by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and joined by 107 news media and press rights organizations, including almost every state press association across the country.
