Students at UVA Law's First Amendment Clinic, run by RCFP attorneys, helped Business Insider access records about prison ...

It’s the third data-driven investigation based on records Spotlight PA obtained through successful litigation with free legal ...

Opportunities at the Reporters Committee include full-time positions, legal and policy fellowships, internships, and other openings as they are available. Please note application and deadline ...

From the Summer 2011 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 18. There are two broad types of… From the Summer 2011 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 18. There are two broad types of laws that ...

A law enacted by Alameda County, California, criminalizes the act of reporting on street races and other reckless driving ...

President Barack Obama’s recent assertion of executive privilege in the investigation into Operation Fast and Furious highlights the difficulty journalists can face when invocation of the ...

The Reporter’s Recording Guide provides a summary of the recording laws (which restrict the recording and dissemination of phone calls and in-person conversations) and hidden camera laws (which ...

With the 2024 election behind us, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is looking ahead to Donald Trump’s second term as president and how it will impact press freedom and the public’s ...

The Rolling Stone article. As controversy swirled around Rolling Stone in the wake of its story about rape at the… ...

This year marks the 85th anniversary of Near v. Minnesota, the milestone U.S. Supreme Court decision that created the presumption that prior restraints — government restriction of speech prior to ...

Bruce D. Brown, a former journalist and partner in the Washington office of Baker & Hostetler, became executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in September 2012. He is a ...

Short for strategic lawsuits against public participation, SLAPPs have become an all-too-common tool for intimidating and silencing criticism through expensive, baseless legal proceedings. Anti-SLAPP ...