Liam Reilly
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CPJ says Mario Guevara was deported early Friday to his native El Salvador, after spending months in custody following his arrest while covering a protest (Liam Reilly/CNN)

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October 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"Mario Guevara, the Salvadoran journalist who gained popularity by documenting immigration raids, has been deported after spending months in federal custody.
October 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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“Mario Guevara’s deportation is a troubling sign of the deteriorating freedom of the press under the Trump administration,” said CPJ U.S., Canada, and Caribbean Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen. “Make no mistake, this is not a simple immigration case."

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Journalist Mario Guevara to be deported from US in unprecedented case  - Committee to Protect Journalists
Washington, D.C., October 2, 2025—In response to news that journalist Mario Guevara will be deported on Friday from the United States back to his native El Salvador, the Committee to Protect Journalis...
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October 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
October 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Journalist Mario Guevara is being deported because the American government punishes reporters to protect its own power.

We should all be outraged.

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October 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Gomez:

“We have seen that this administration uses the fact that it has to approve mergers and acquisitions in order to impose ideological requirements on the companies or censor these companies.
October 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Anna Gomez speaking at the University of Mississippi as part of her First Amendment Tour:

“With a vote just this week during our monthly meeting, the FCC is gearing up to make major changes that will drastically alter the national media landscape, and the number of voices that are a part of it.
October 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"A comedy festival in Saudi Arabia featuring high-profile American performers is drawing intense criticism from human rights advocates who say the star-studded event helps gloss over the kingdom’s ongoing human rights abuses."

Read my full story for CNN here:
www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/m...
American comedians at Saudi festival draw backlash from human rights groups | CNN Business
The Riyadh Comedy Festival’s critics say that high-profile American comics are lending legitimacy to a government that represses dissent, jails activists and restricts free speech.
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October 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Christopher Ruddy’s pro-Trump channel Newsmax on Wednesday filed an antitrust lawsuit against Fox News, accusing the Rupert Murdoch-owned broadcaster of illegally blocking competition in the right-wing pay-TV market.
September 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Wednesday evening on the MAGA cable channel OAN, as DoD spokeswoman Kingsley Wilson gushed to host Matt Gaetz about an alleged year-over-year increase in female military recruits, four images of women soldiers in combat fatigues were displayed on-screen.

All four images were AI fakes.
August 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The New York Post is heading west.

The tabloid’s ownership announced that it will launch a sister publication, The California Post, in early 2026.
August 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Now-former ABC News correspondent Terry Moran sat down for a pair of interviews on Monday, speaking out for the first time about losing his job at the network after he posted a social media missive last week against President Donald Trump and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.
June 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The Washington Post on Wednesday announced it has a new Opinion editor. The move comes four months after it announced a “significant shift” to the Opinion page and the departure of its embattled section chief.
June 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I spoke with FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez about her First Amendment Tour and the agency's "sham investigations" into news outlets.
June 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sent Media Matters for America a letter demanding communications between the progressive media watchdog and advertising entities as the commission probes whether the watchdog colluded with advertisers to pull funding from Elon Musk’s X.
May 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company on Friday said a “rogue employee” was behind its chatbot’s unsolicited rants about “white genocide” in South Africa earlier this week.
May 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A Democratic commissioner on the FCC tore into the panel’s recent actions under its new chairman, without naming him, saying the agency has been "weaponized to chill speech and to punish the press."
May 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
“After much teasing and speculation, ESPN has finally unveiled the details of its new flagship streaming service.”
May 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"Netflix is getting its first facelift in 12 years.

The streaming giant on Wednesday announced a major overhaul of its home page, the first redesign since it unveiled its current home page in November 2013."
May 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"President Donald Trump is belatedly raging against CBS News’ latest Emmy nomination."
May 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will meet with Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic editor-in-chief who, in late March, was accidentally added to a Signal group chat that involved classified information and several top Trump officials."

Check out my full story with Kit Maher here:
Trump says he’ll sit for an interview with the reporter who exposed Hegseth’s ‘Signalgate’ | CNN Business
President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will meet with Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic editor-in-chief who, in late March, was accidentally added to a Signal group chat that involved classified info...
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April 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Andrew Kirell and I wrote about Trump's Thursday morning Truth Social post that took aim at a recent Fox News poll.

As we put it: "It’s perhaps a bad day for President Donald Trump when even Fox News is suggesting things may not be going so well."

Check out our full story for CNN here:
Trump goes after Fox News for highlighting his cratering economic approval ratings | CNN Business
It’s perhaps a bad day for President Donald Trump when even Fox News is suggesting things may not be going so well.
www.cnn.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I chatted with Time's longtime creative director, D.W. Pine, about the role the magazine's covers play in today's media ecosystem and about some of the more divisive covers he's put out during his 26-plus years working with the red frame.

You can read my full story for CNN here:
Time magazine’s creative director of 26 years wants to continue questioning authority | CNN Business
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then D.W. Pine, Time’s creative director of 26 years who recently published his thousandth cover, certainly has a lot to say.
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April 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene on Wednesday used a DOGE subcommittee hearing to call for the defunding and dismantling of the company that provides NPR and PBS with federal funds.
March 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
A budding media start-up producing a culinary docuseries has been stuck in limbo for months. After being approved for USAID funding, the show’s co-founders discovered that the agency’s money never cleared — and now the Trump administration is caught in a legal battle to dismantle USAID.
March 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM