Max Abrams

Buffalo, Santa Barbara

Fellow at Freedom of the Press Foundation

fellow @freedomofpress | alum @medillschool & @ucsantabarbara | buffalo kid 🦬 | [email protected]

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Silencing Voice of America has global consequences

4 weeks ago | freedom.press | Max Abrams

As a reporter on the press freedom beat, Liam Scott chronicled abuses against journalists at home and abroad for Voice of America. But he was shocked when the experiences of those on the other side of the page became his own. In March, President Donald Trump signed an executive order suddenly gutting the United States Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA.
Trump’s attacks on law firms and nonprofits endanger the press

1 month ago | freedom.press | Max Abrams

It doesn’t take a law degree to see that President Donald Trump’s attacks on law firms and nonprofits could also do irreparable harm to press freedom. Since January, Trump has strong-armed law firms and targeted nonprofits, launching salvos against institutions he sees as roadblocks on his path to greater political control.
Trump is restricting White House press access. It’s not the first time

2 months ago | freedom.press | Max Abrams

When The Associated Press didn’t bow to President Donald Trump’s demand to refer to the Gulf of Mexico solely as the “Gulf of America,” he barred the news service from events in the Oval Office and on Air Force One. And when a judge determined that Trump’s decision to do so was unconstitutional, he spiked the permanent press pool slot for wire services entirely.
Local news publishers share how they survived attacks on press freedom

Mar 28, 2025 | freedom.press | Max Abrams

Local newspapers play an indelible role in American journalism, reporting some of the country’s biggest stories from its smallest communities. So when authorities in Marion, Kansas, and Clarksdale, Mississippi, attacked their local newspapers for coverage with which they disagreed, the outlets themselves became the story.
Encryption should be part of every journalist’s toolkit

Nov 4, 2024 | freedom.press | Max Abrams

Tech journalist Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai received an anonymous tip in 2017 through SecureDrop, a whistleblower submission system and project of Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF).