The Associated Press said the White House had blocked its journalists from attending two press events because the news agency had not started using the term Gulf of America.
Category: Freedom of the Press
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Trump’s Blueprint for Bending the Media Has Nixon Written All Over It
The president’s heavy-handed approach to traditional journalists has the hallmarks of an attempted crackdown 50 years ago.
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Trump Administration to Remove 4 Major News Outlets From Pentagon Office Space
The New York Times, NBC News, NPR and Politico will be replaced by outlets including the right-wing site Breitbart News as part of a “new annual media rotation,” a spokesman said.
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CBS Rebukes Anchor Over Tense Interview With Ta-Nehisi Coates
Executives said the interview, conducted by the morning show anchor Tony Dokoupil, had fallen short of network editorial standards.
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Hong Kong Journalists Convicted of Sedition in Stand News Case
The editors said they published stories in the public interest. A judge ruled they were guilty of a crime against national security.
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Sarah Palin Is Granted New Libel Trial Against The New York Times
A federal appeals court said that the judge overseeing the original trial, which Ms. Palin lost, had wrongly excluded evidence and might have swayed jurors as they were deliberating.
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$235,000 Settlement Is Reached in Police Raid of Marion County Record
A former reporter of The Marion County Record has settled a lawsuit following a raid on the weekly newspaper last year that garnered widespread attention.
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How Julian Assange Lit the Fuse on the Digital World
In his brazen quest for total transparency, the WikiLeaks founder paved the way for a world in which no secret is safe and no institution trusted.
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A Life, and Death, as a Mexican Journalist Shown in Documentary
The documentary “State of Silence,” premiering at the Tribeca Festival, uses personal stories to explain the bleak situation for journalists in Mexico.
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Michael Abramowitz Named New Director of Voice of America
Michael Abramowitz, a former Washington Post journalist who is currently the president of the nonprofit Freedom House, is expected to start in the role this summer.