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Tell the FCC: Restore Net Neutrality
- Category: Action
- Created: 17 January 2014
Right now there is no one protecting Internet users from ISPs that block or discriminate against websites, applications or services. Companies like Verizon will now be able to block or slow down any website, application or service they like. And they’ll be able to create tiered pricing structures with fast lanes for those who can afford the tolls and slow lanes for everyone else.
Scared Silent: NSA Surveillance has 'Chilling Effect' on American Writers
- Category: News
- Created: 12 November 2013
Recent disclosures of the NSA's widespread dragnet program coupled with its frequent targeting of journalists are having a 'chilling effect' on American writers, stifling their freedom of expression at great detriment to society, says a new report Chilling Effects: NSA Surveillance Drives U.S. Writers to Self Censor.
Something's Happening to Local News
- Category: News
- Created: 08 November 2013
In an op-ed today in the Baltimore Sun, Free Press Media Manager Jenn Topper and Research Director S. Derek Turner write about Sinclair Broadcast Group and the shady tactics it's using to evade the Federal Communications Commissions media ownership limits -- including setting up shell companies.
Stop the Media Giants from Devouring Local TV. Share This Now!
- Category: Action
- Created: 08 November 2013
FCC: Stop the Wave of Mergers. Media companies are using shady tactics to dodge the Federal Communications Commission’s ownership rules and snap up local TV stations across the U.S.
SecureDrop, Aaron Swartz's secure software for whistleblowers, gets a reboot
- Category: News
- Created: 06 November 2013
In the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations about secret National Security Agency surveillance programs, government whistleblowers are under more scrutiny than ever before—but they also have more tools to carry out their activities securely.
How Obama Administration-Controlled Media Is Used to Avoid Scrutiny from the Press
- Category: News
- Created: 13 October 2013
What makes the crackdown on leaks, increased denials of Freedom of Information Act requests and surveillance of journalists even more pernicious is how this conduct by President Barack Obama’s administration has taken place as the administration simultaneously uses its own media to pump out its own message.
A Grim Report on Press Freedoms Under Obama
- Category: News
- Created: 13 October 2013
Today the Committee to Protect Journalists unveiled a detailed, sober assessment of press freedom in the United States during President Obama’s tenure. The report concluded that far from fulfilling his campaign promise to improve transparency, the president has instead presided over an unprecedented campaign to contain leaks and to control media coverage of government operations.
The Center for Public Integrity
- Category: Resources
- Created: 03 August 2013
The Center for Public Integrity was founded in 1989 by Charles Lewis. We are one of the country's oldest and largest nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news organizations. Our mission: To serve democracy by revealing abuses of power, corruption and betrayal of public trust by powerful public and private institutions, using the tools of investigative journalism.
Demand That Attorney General Holder Stop the Harassment of Journalists
- Category: Action
- Created: 03 October 2013
U.S. journalists should be able to enter the country without fear of detention or intimidation.
The Senate Is Busy Creating a Privileged 1st Amendment Club for 'Official' Journalists
- Category: News
- Created: 21 September 2013
On September 12, 2013, the U.S. Senate Judiciary committee narrowly defined who the law should consider to be a journalist, by amending the proposed Free Flow of Information Act (“FFIA”). The FFIA is a “shield law” that protects journalists from having to reveal their confidential sources when confronted with court subpoenas. The amendment changed the language of the bill from protecting the activity of journalism to protecting the profession. Journalists are now limited to those employed by, recently employed by, or substantially contributing to media organizations for certain minimum durations.