Freedom of the Press Foundation

Freedom of the press, or media freedom, is a key principle that ensures individuals can communicate and express themselves through different forms of media, such as print and digital channels, without restrictions. This freedom means that the government should not interfere in these communications. To protect this right, it can be supported by constitutional laws or other legal measures.

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Trump attacks the press not just as an authoritarian but as a business rival

1 day ago | freedom.press | Seth Stern

Some say President Donald Trump runs the country like a business. That’s debatable, though he certainly treats the press like one of his corporate rivals – including by targeting news outlets with legal actions that are normally seen in business litigation. The claims are baseless. But they may open up opportunities for the press to go on offense.
Trump’s attacks on law firms and nonprofits endanger the press

6 days 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.
Chrome concedes third-party cookie fight

2 weeks ago | freedom.press | Martin Shelton

It’s the digital security training team at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), with security news that keeps you, your sources, and your devices safe. If someone shared this newsletter with you, please subscribe here. While cookies have many legitimate uses, such as helping to keep you logged into websites, advertisers have also long used cookies embedded in websites to track users’ behaviors.
Administration must release memos about abduction of op-ed writer

2 weeks ago | freedom.press | Seth Stern

Secretary of State Marco Rubio claims the authority to unilaterally declare students who protest the Israel-Gaza war antisemites and terrorism supporters in order to kick them out of the country. So when even Rubio’s State Department doubts the government has grounds to deport a student — especially an anti-war student from the Middle East — the administration’s position must be exceptionally weak. In the case of Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk, it is.
Investigating Medicaid fraud through public records

3 weeks ago | freedom.press | Mary Hudetz |Jimena Pinzon

This is the second in a series of profiles of independent journalists who use public records to hold local governments accountable. The first, about Lisa Pickoff-White of the California Reporting Project, is available here.
Signalgate: The saga continues

3 weeks ago | freedom.press | Martin Shelton

It’s the digital security training team at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), with security news that keeps you, your sources, and your devices safe. If someone shared this newsletter with you, please subscribe here. Last month we previously wrote about lessons learned from Signalgate, in which national security adviser Michael Waltz inadvertently added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, to a Signal group chat concerning plans for bombings in Yemen.
Trump is restricting White House press access. It’s not the first time

3 weeks 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.
Tariffs and security updates

4 weeks ago | freedom.press | Martin Shelton

It’s the digital security training team at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), with security news that keeps you, your sources, and your devices safe. If someone shared this newsletter with you, please subscribe here. For those in the United States importing tech from overseas, it’s probably a good time to seriously assess what devices you might want to purchase ahead of the potential for tariffs to be levied on the gadgets you need for your work.
Siding with Apple, court rejects UK’s secrecy request

1 month ago | freedom.press | Martin Shelton

It’s the digital security training team at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), with security news that keeps you, your sources, and your devices safe. If someone shared this newsletter with you, please subscribe here. Apple’s Advanced Data Protection service hardens its iCloud offering by using further encryption to prevent even Apple from accessing users’ iCloud data.
Chilling effect of Assange prosecution on display in Signalgate

1 month ago | freedom.press | Seth Stern

There’s been plenty of speculation over how The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg found himself on a Signal thread with top-level Trump administration officials. The latest version of the story is that national security adviser Mike Waltz inadvertently saved Goldberg’s phone number as an alternate number for a National Security Council spokesperson. But people don’t seem as curious about an arguably more consequential question: Why did Goldberg leave the chat?