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The ruling is the latest victory RCFP attorneys have won on behalf of news outlets challenging the constitutionality of ...
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The public has a First Amendment right to know what’s happening in the courts. When court documents are sealed or reporters are blocked from attending or covering proceedings, it sends a message that ...
The Chattanooga Times Free Press, represented by RCFP attorneys, sued the city council in 2022 for secretly discussing new voting boundaries.
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press today announced $1.25 million in new funding from Press Forward, a national initiative to reimagine local news. With this grant, the Reporters ...
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press today announced a $1 million gift from the Henry Luce Foundation for its mission to provide legal resources at no cost to journalists, to protect First ...
As RCFP's Gabe Rottman writes, the bill could sweep beyond TikTok to other social media platforms, and, indeed, possibly to news websites.
Two years ago, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press launched its Local Legal Initiative, an ambitious effort to expand free legal support for local enterprise and investigative journalism.
In a concerning ruling this month, a California Superior Court judge allowed the city of Los Angeles to move forward with a lawsuit seeking to claw back police personnel records that the city itself ...
In NRA v. Vullo, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed its seminal ruling in a 1963 case, Bantam Books v. Sullivan.