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Across the country, journalists are facing threats, arrests and violence for keeping the public informed. @ByGeorgiaFort is one of them.
That’s why she is partnering with @uspresstracker, @pressfreedom and @protctdemocracy to document these stories.
Update: President Donald Trump’s $10B defamation suit against @bbcnews survives a motion to dismiss and is allowed to proceed, a federal judge in Florida ruled Tuesday.
A secondary claim of unfair business practices was tossed:
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Campaigns call police on reporters. Lawmakers threaten legal action. The White House restricts access.
The 2026 midterms renewed pressure on press freedom.
Explore the @uspresstracker's analysis of threats to reporters covering elections since 2017: pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/…
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Across the country, journalists are facing threats, arrests and violence for keeping the public informed. @ByGeorgiaFort is one of them.
That’s why she is partnering with @uspresstracker, @pressfreedom and @protctdemocracy to document these stories.
Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, two independent journalists arrested in January after documenting a St. Paul, Minnesota, anti-deportation protest, were targeted with multiple third-party subpoenas issued to YouTube in April, newly unsealed records revealed: pressfreedomtracker.us/all-i…
An April 9 subpoena requested expansive data about Lemon’s YouTube account: pressfreedomtracker.us/all-i…
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And one April 14 legal order requested subscriber information about Fort’s account.
The subpoenas were ultimately dropped in May: pressfreedomtracker.us/all-i…
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Members of the press were told they would be physically removed from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon news briefing this morning — the first in months — if they didn’t adhere to unspecified rules of decorum: pressfreedomtracker.us/all-i…
As the midterm election season came to a close, journalists from across the country were kicked out of or blocked from reporting at election night watch parties by campaigns on both sides of the political aisle.
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Top general Brett Sylvia was fired last week for allegedly leaking classified defense information to reporters at @nytimes and @wsj.
The Pentagon announced that the matter has been referred to the Justice Department for prosecution. pressfreedomtracker.us/all-i…
Update: A judge on Saturday permanently tossed Trump’s defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal for a 2025 article on a birthday letter he allegedly sent Jeffrey Epstein.
The judge wrote Trump’s amended complaint was “grasping at straws.”
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Voters may punish Donald Trump at the polls this week. But he has already shattered the norms of political journalism. cjr.org/the_media_today/lets…
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Former FBI Director James Comey was charged by federal prosecutors Oct. 5 with releasing defense information to @nytimes 10 years prior. The alleged violations of the Espionage Act are punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
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Update: A former LA County sheriff was granted qualified immunity by an appeals panel Oct. 21 in a federal suit brought by livestreamer Hugo Padilla over alleged use of force during 2020 racial justice protests in California.
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Update: @Politico and @CNN argued in an amended complaint over White House bans filed Wednesday that repeated exclusions from Air Force One represent a further violation of their First Amendment and due process rights.
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In an amended complaint filed Wednesday, @CNN, @MSNOWNews and @Politico expanded their suit against the White House’s press ban and demanded injunctive relief for repeated denials of access to Air Force One during President Trump’s campaign-related travel.
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The misdemeanor obstruction charge against independent journalist Aaron Johnson, who was cited after filming police activity in St. Paul, MN, was dismissed by a judge Oct. 8.
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Johnson was filming a law enforcement operation July 14 when an officer shoved him to the ground, leaving him injured and shattering his camera screen and lens.
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Carlitos Ricardo Parias’ family seeks $50M over his ICE detention, exiled Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano is granted U.S. asylum, and reporter Estefany Rodríguez’s legal fight over retaliation.
More in this month’s newsletter from Kirstin McCudden:
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