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🔔 Join us for a conversation about ICE's targeting of pro-Palestinian journalists, featuring Hassan Ahmad 韓安山, Chris Godshall-Bennett, Samantha C. Hamilton, Sam Judy, Marium Uddin, and moderated by FPF's Seth Stern.

🗓️ Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2 p.m. EST

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Invitation to FPF event about ICE's targeting of pro-Palestinian journalists.
November 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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🔔 Join us for a conversation about ICE's targeting of pro-Palestinian journalists, featuring Hassan Ahmad 韓安山, Chris Godshall-Bennett, Samantha C. Hamilton, Sam Judy, Marium Uddin, and moderated by FPF's Seth Stern.

🗓️ Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2 p.m. EST

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Invitation to FPF event about ICE's targeting of pro-Palestinian journalists.
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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🔔 Join us for a conversation about ICE's targeting of pro-Palestinian journalists, featuring Hassan Ahmad 韓安山, Chris Godshall-Bennett, Samantha C. Hamilton, Sam Judy, Marium Uddin, and moderated by FPF's Seth Stern.

🗓️ Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2 p.m. EST

RSVP: http://freedom.press/targeted-by-ice
Invitation to FPF event about ICE's targeting of pro-Palestinian journalists.
November 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Are you a journalist who covers the mass incarceration system in the U.S.?

Watch the video below by journalist Daniel Moritz-Rabson to know the rights, risks, and realities for journalists trying to get the story from American prisons and jails.

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November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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🔔 Join us for a conversation about ICE's targeting of pro-Palestinian journalists, featuring @hmaesq.bsky.social, @cgbatty.bsky.social, Samantha C. Hamilton, Sam Judy, Marium Uddin, and moderated by FPF's @seth-stern.bsky.social

🗓️ Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2 p.m. EST

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Invitation to FPF event about ICE's targeting of pro-Palestinian journalists.
November 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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A $3 million settlement is major victory, but it can’t undo the damage to press freedom from the illegal raid on the Marion County Record.

If other communities don’t want to learn First Amendment law the expensive way, they must train police and prosecutors to respect press rights.
Quote card from Caitlin Vogus that reads: "A $3 million settlement is major victory, but it can’t undo the damage to press freedom from the illegal raid the Marion County Record. If other communities don’t want to learn First Amendment law the expensive way, they must train police and prosecutors to respect press rights."
November 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Contrary to what you might have heard, journalists don't need to seek permission from or check in with the government to cover immigration courts.

Thanks to FPF's advocacy, the government changed its practices and its policies to make that clear.

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Screenshot of FPF email exchange with the Executive Office for Immigration Review.
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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A $3 million settlement is major victory, but it can’t undo the damage to press freedom from the illegal raid on the Marion County Record.

If other communities don’t want to learn First Amendment law the expensive way, they must train police and prosecutors to respect press rights.
Quote card from Caitlin Vogus that reads: "A $3 million settlement is major victory, but it can’t undo the damage to press freedom from the illegal raid the Marion County Record. If other communities don’t want to learn First Amendment law the expensive way, they must train police and prosecutors to respect press rights."
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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“It is fundamentally the right thing to do.”

Watch: @wired.com's @katie-drummond.bsky.social, @404media.co's @josephcox.bsky.social, and @freedom.press ’ @laurenleharper.bsky.social discuss why FOIA-based reporting should be free.
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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🔴 LIVE NOW: Join us for a conversation with journalists abducted by Israel from Gaza aid flotillas.

Featuring @dropsitenews.com's @recolston.bsky.social, Emily Wilder, and Noa Avishag Schnall, and moderated by @rightsdissent.bsky.social's @chipgibbons.bsky.social.

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November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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🔔 At the top of the hour: Join us for a conversation with journalists abducted by Israel from Gaza aid flotillas, featuring @recolston.bsky.social, Emily Wilder, and Noa Avishag Schnall, and moderated by @chipgibbons.bsky.social.

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November 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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🔔 Today: Join us for a conversation with journalists abducted by Israel from Gaza aid flotillas, featuring @recolston.bsky.social, Emily Wilder, and Noa Avishag Schnall, and moderated by @chipgibbons.bsky.social.

🕒 Noon EST/9 a.m. PST

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November 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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🔔 Tomorrow: Join us for a conversation with journalists abducted by Israel from Gaza aid flotillas, featuring @recolston.bsky.social, Emily Wilder, and Noa Avishag Schnall, and moderated by @chipgibbons.bsky.social.

🗓️ Nov. 3, 12 p.m. EST/9 a.m. PST

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November 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Hyattsville Immigration Court has lifted its ridiculous requirement for reporters to get permission from furloughed federal agents to cover hearings.

We wrote to the court’s top judge yesterday about how the requirement violated the constitution.

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Screenshot of letter to Hyattsville Immigration Court's top judge about how the requirement violated the constitution.
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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🔔 Join us for a conversation with journalists abducted from Gaza aid flotillas, featuring @recolston.bsky.social, Emily Wilder, and Noa Avishag Schnall, moderated by @chipgibbons.bsky.social.

🗓️ Monday, Nov. 3, 12 p.m. EST/9 a.m. PST

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Join us for a conversation with journalists abducted from Gaza aid flotillas. Monday, Nov. 3, 12 p.m. EST/9 a.m. PST RSVP: freedom.press/gaza-flotillas
October 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Will Trump’s White House ballroom really be built only with private funds? And have donors, which the president called his “friends,” been promised any favors?

These are just two of the big questions we’re asking.

Watch @laurenleharper.bsky.social explain.
October 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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We spoke with @briankarem.bsky.social earlier this month about how Trump administration’s efforts to push experienced journalists out of government buildings are a disservice to democracy and the public.

Watch:
October 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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📣TODAY, 2 pm ET: RSVP to our webinar on unpaywalling FOIA-based reporting: freedom.press/unpaywalled

Feat. a star-studded panel: @wired.com's @katie-drummond.bsky.social; @404media.co's @josephcox.bsky.social; @laurenleharper.bsky.social; @caitlinvogus.bsky.social

Intro by @johncusack.bsky.social
Unpaywalled: The case for making public records-based reporting free An event hosted by Freedom of the Press Foundation, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2 pm ET/11 am PT RSVP at freedom.press/unpaywalled
October 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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🔔 Public records-based reporting should be free. @404media.co and @wired.com are leading the way.

Tomorrow, join our webinar to hear why this is a public service and good for business, featuring @josephcox.bsky.social and @katie-drummond.bsky.social.

🕒 2 p.m. EDT

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Invitation to FPF zoom webinar on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 2 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. PDT
October 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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🔔 First, listen to this PSA from @johncusack.bsky.social on the need to unpaywall public records reporting.

Then, RSVP to our webinar and hear @josephcox.bsky.social and @katie-drummond.bsky.social discuss why this is so essential.

🗓️ Oct. 29, 2 p.m. EDT

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October 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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🔔 FPF's @caitlinvogus.bsky.social will join a panel of experts to break down how the FCC and FTC target journalists and the First Amendment, and how to fight back.

🗓️ Oct. 29, 12:10 p.m. ET

RSVP for @cdt.org's #FutureOfSpeech 2025, “Working the Refs” panel: standtogether.swoogo.com/foso25/9611460
October 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Journalist @briankarem.bsky.social says the Pentagon's new restrictions on the press enable "a proliferation of propaganda."

"Journalists aren't going to be at the Pentagon," he said. "What you're going to have are propagandists, stenographers, people who will spout the company line."
October 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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FPF's @caitlinvogus.bsky.social will join a panel to break down how the FCC and FTC are targeting journalists and the First Amendment, and how to fight back.

🗓️ Oct. 29, 12:10 p.m. ET

Register for @cdt.org #FutureOfSpeech 2025, “Working the Refs” panel:

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October 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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PSA from @johncusack.bsky.social: Democracy is under attack — and paywalls shouldn’t stand in the way of accessing vital public records.

News outlets, it’s time to drop the paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Hear why this is so important at the event below:
October 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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🔔 Public records-based reporting belongs to the public. @404media.co and @wired.com are leading the way.

Hear why this is a public service and good for business, featuring @josephcox.bsky.social and @katie-drummond.bsky.social.

🗓️ Oct. 29, 2 p.m. EDT

RSVP: freedom.press/unpaywalled
Invitation to FPF zoom webinar on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 2 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. PDT RSVP: http://freedom.press/unpaywalled
October 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM