In 2023, the police raid on the Marion County Record made national headlines. Reporters from across the country converged on the rural town of Marion, Kansas, to report on the seizure of the ...

Illinois lawmakers have passed a first-of-its-kind bill intended to insulate non-student public media organizations run by public universities from undue political influence or pressure. Approved by ...

Background: In October 2025, the private prison company CoreCivic announced that it was awarded a contract from the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to ...

Update: On May 19, 2026, a Louisiana judge ruled in favor of the parish, holding that the government’s fee schedule for accessing public records “is reasonable and does not violate the State of ...

On behalf of Jigsaw Productions, RCFP attorneys successfully argued that the disclosure of the video would not harm Musk’s privacy. Elon Musk arrives to speak at the Conservative Political Action ...

A federal judge ruled on Friday that the Pentagon’s media access policy violated the Constitution, concluding in part that it was intended “to weed out disfavored journalists” and replace them with ...

Background: In a notice issued on Jan. 16, 2026, the Federal Aviation Administration imposed sweeping, nationwide flight restrictions that bar drones from flying within 3,000 lateral feet and 1,000 ...

With free legal support from an attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, WKBN recently obtained police recordings that shed new light on what led to a fatal police shooting in ...

Journalist Don Lemon conducts an interview inside a church in Minnesota during a broadcast of his YouTube show. (The Don Lemon Show) Federal agents arrested independent journalists Don Lemon and ...

Background: On Jan. 14, 2026, the FBI executed a search warrant at the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson as part of an investigation into a government contractor charged with illegally ...

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is pushing back against a new Pentagon policy that threatens to revoke press passes from journalists covering the Pentagon if they attempt to report ...

The Indiana Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Nardi v. King. It may not have made headlines, but the recent conclusion of a public records dispute in Indiana should leave journalists and news ...