By the time the social media platform Twitter permanently suspended his account on Jan. 8, 2021, President Donald Trump had posted 2,520 tweets degrading journalists and the media as a whole.
Journalists covering state responses to the coronavirus pandemic are hampered as officials reduce seating in briefing rooms, introduce unreliable technology and, in some cases, refuse real-time questions.
Attacks on press credibility endanger US democracy and global press freedom.
Student journalists, plagued by questions of editorial independence and with varying degrees of First Amendment protections, nonetheless face the same press freedom challenges as their professional counterparts.
A theater program in Prijedor, Bosnia-Herzegovina brings young Bosnians from different backgrounds together to create and perform an original play, providing in the process a space for the teens to grapple with the divides and issues that have persisted in their communities and begin to envision a different future.
Since declaring his candidacy, President Trump has sent 1,339 tweets about the media that were critical, insinuating, condemning, or threatening. I tracked and analyzed them.
The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker has documented that at least 27 U.S. media outlets were targeted with the hoax bomb threats, alongside hundreds of schools, businesses and public buildings. Events over the past year have spurred many newsrooms across the country to reevaluate their security infrastructure and procedures.
At CPJ, we documented or assisted in at least seven cases of journalists seeking asylum in the past 18 months. All of them fled their home countries after receiving threats for their work, and have been detained for long periods by ICE.
The shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis shook news outlets across the country, pushing many to reassess their security infrastructure and procedures.
Customs and Border Protection’s power to search electronic devices without warrant has serious implications for press freedom.
Why the international community shouldn’t endorse a land swap between Kosovo and Serbia.
For journalists of color, reporting on protests carries different risks and, often, higher repercussions, targeted both by the police and attacked by protesters.