Tanvi Valsangikar, RCFP’s inaugural Abrams Legal Fellow, provides free legal services to FRONTLINE and other documentary ...

The bill would protect the editorial autonomy of non-student public media stations affiliated with public universities.

RCFP's Gabe Rottman explains the legal theories advanced by The New York Times in its lawsuit challenging the Pentagon's new ...

Despite what FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told Congress, the FCC has limited authority to regulate the licenses of news ...

RCFP attorneys have spent years representing the Bucks County Courier Times in its fight to unseal the records.

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Agency records can be subject to the Freedom of Information Act even if they are kept in an employee’s nongovernmental email account, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. The ruling by the U.S.

On May 23, 2019, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia returned a superseding indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The indictment adds 17 counts under the Espionage ...

The debate over police radio encryption shows how technology is relevant to First Amendment questions even at the local level. Local governments are starting to encrypt routine police radio ...

The legislation was introduced after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a roundtable discussion on defamation law. (AP photo by Wilfredo Lee) Update: After the defamation legislation failed to pass, ...

A screen capture from Josie Huang's cellphone recording shows sheriff's deputies moments after they tackled the journalist to the ground on Sept. 12, 2020. (Courtesy of Josie Huang) Josie Huang, a ...