In 2025, journalists in the U.S. have been assaulted, arrested, and targeted with retaliatory lawsuits, covert surveillance and sweeping secrecy measures.

Press freedom is at risk like never before, so we’re fighting back with new advocacy strategies, trainings, and more.

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The police were naughty. The prosecutors were nice.

We’re heading into the holidays with a nice win for press freedom in Miami:

https://freedom.press/issues/florida-prosecutor-agrees-photography-is-not-a-crime/

📩 Read in our weekly newsletter (and subscribe):

- Covering protests is a dangerous job for journalists
- Stop Heng Guan's deportation
- The FCC’s declaration of dependence
- Trump’s BBC lawsuit is nonsense, like his others
- Plus, what we're reading...

https://freedom.press/issues/covering-protests-is-a-dangerous-job-for-journalists/

Google Chrome is preparing to deploy AI "agents" that can browse for you and automate actions. But there are risks involved with sharing sensitive information.

Read about security risks that come with this feature in our newsletter (and subscribe):

https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/google-chrome-prepares-ai-agents/

🎥 To our NYC audiences and documentary film buffs: Freedom of the Press Foundation is proud to host a special screening of the Oscar-shortlisted film Cover-Up by Laura Poitras — an FPF founding board member — followed by a Q&A with the director and journalist Seymour M. Hersh, moderated by our Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy Lauren Harper.

🗓️ Sunday, Dec. 21, 2:45 pm
📍 Film Forum

Get your tickets:

https://filmforum.org/events/event/cover-up-december-21-245

If Brendan Carr "believes the FCC is subservient to the president, then he is the last person who should be claiming the power to regulate journalists' editorial decisions under the FCC’s 'public interest' standard," Seth Stern and Clayton Weimers write.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/18/brendan-carr-fcc-trump-journalism-police

🎥 To our NYC audiences and documentary film buffs: Freedom of the Press Foundation is proud to host a special screening of the Oscar-shortlisted film Cover-Up by Laura Poitras — an FPF founding board member — and Mark Obenhaus, followed by a Q&A with the award-winning directors and producer Yoni Golijov, moderated by our Executive Director Trevor Timm.

🗓️ Friday, Dec. 19, 7:45 p.m.

📍 Film Forum

Get your tickets:

https://filmforum.org/events/event/cover-up-december-19

It's shameful the Pentagon is curtailing access five decades after SCOTUS’ Pentagon Papers ruling in 1971 firmly placed the First Amendment and press freedom before the government's secrecy claims, Lauren Harper told NPR's 1A.

https://the1a.org/segments/if-you-can-keep-it-the-pentagon-and-the-press/

Journalists — is your digital security ready for 2026? See how you do in our checklist:

https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/journalists-digital-security-checklist/

The Trump administration is amassing data on the public while federal agencies publish less data about everything from deportations to the economy.

How to counter this lopsided information environment? By staying informed, Lauren Harper said on NPR's 1A.

https://the1a.org/segments/the-trump-administration-is-strengthening-its-surveillance-capabilities/