The coalition, represented by RCFP attorneys, is urging a federal court to rule that the law is unconstitutional and to block ...

The move could pose a threat to public interest newsgathering and the ability of the press to serve its watchdog function.

PublicSource and its reporter seek access to the names of law enforcement officers who aren’t performing undercover ...

A Maryland appellate court should find the University of Maryland’s fee-waiver denial for public records arbitrary and ...

RCFP attorneys are representing the coalition in a challenge to a law that prohibits media witnesses to executions in the ...

The Reporter’s Recording Guide provides a summary of the recording laws (which restrict the recording and dissemination of phone calls and in-person conversations) and hidden camera laws (which ...

From the Spring 2011 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 17. A federal court in New York… From the Spring 2011 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 17. A federal court in New York City ruled in ...

The video starts silently, with white text on a black screen providing context to its depiction of the killing of 12 people in an Iraqi suburb by the American military. The haunting video was the ...

Background: On March 14, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order gutting the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the federally funded agency that oversees Radio Free Asia, Voice of America, ...