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New PBS doc highlights importance of unfettered newsgathering at protests
RCFP's Gabe Rottman explores an important lesson from the long, hot summer of 1967.By Gabe RottmanCategorized in History -
Understanding the legal fight over the Nixon tapes
We look back at the year-long legal fight to secure President Richard Nixon's White House audio recordings.By Gabe RottmanCategorized in History -
Reporters Committee mourns passing of founding member Fred Graham
Fred P. Graham helped found the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press -
Our work to advance press freedom in 2018
As we mark World Press Freedom Day today and celebrate the important role of a free press throughout the world,… -
New Book on Government Secrecy from Geoffrey Stone
· Story link “Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark” is a new book by Geoffrey Stone,… -
From the beginning, by Co-Founder Murray Fromson
Looking Back on the Reporters Committee's 35th Anniversary On the first Sunday of December, 1969, I invited Tony Lukas of… -
Reporters Committee names new executive director
ARLINGTON, Va. -- Lucy A. Dalglish, a Minneapolis media attorney and former newspaper reporter, has been named Executive Director of… -
Election commission sues Forbes over columns during campaign
SECOND CIRCUIT--Publisher Steve Forbes was sued in late August by the Federal Election Commission, which claimed that Forbes' magazine columns… -
Prison officials ordered to stop reading inmate’s legal mail
THIRD CIRCUIT--Officials at the State Correctional Institution in Greene, Pa., have been ordered by the U.S. Court of Appeals in… -
Hearing called to examine investigation of newspaper bombing
MISSISSIPPI--At a late-May hearing organized by civil rights leaders, Jackson Advocate Publisher Charles Tisdale testified that he believes a conspiracy…