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Cornell University Journalists Kept Rape Case In Spotlight

October 3, 2026 Shireen Akram-Boshar, Truthout. , , ,
Student journalists at Cornell University who have relentlessly pursued the story about the alleged gang rape by seven fraternity members on campus are demanding accountability from their institution. “The Sun is really asking for something that everyone deserves, which is a level of transparency and accountability,” Sophia Dasser, editor-in-chief of Cornell’s student paper, told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Tuesday. “We are students, we have the right to demand safety from our university administrators, and we have the right to demand things like anonymized data reports of outcomes and sanctions and punishments from [sexual assault] cases that were reported.”

Integrity In Media Is Possible

September 29, 2026 Coleen Rowley and Thomas Drake, Consortium News. , , ,
In the formal rooms of the University Club of Chicago the loudest applause was not reserved for celebrity. It was reserved for refusal. The refusal to accept an official story merely because it was official and trade editorial independence for access; refusal for leaving wrongdoing concealed because disclosure might end a career and invite prosecution or fracture and upend a life. The second annual Integrity Media Independent Journalism Awards on Sept. 17 brought journalists, publishers, lawyers, supporters, and whistleblowers into the same room and treated their work not as separate pursuits, but as parts of a shared democratic undertaking against autocracy and authoritarianism.

Defying Court, DHS Seized Logs Of Calls And Texts From Journalist

September 4, 2026 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , , ,
The Department of Homeland Security circumvented a magistrate judge’s orders and seized records of 10,000 calls and text messages from journalist Georgia Fort. Earlier this year, Attorney General Pam Bondi directed federal agents to arrest Fort, Don Lemon, and later Shane Bollman—all journalists who were covering an ICE protest at the Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. They were subsequently charged with crimes and had their electronics searched. Defense lawyers for Fort filed a motion in U.S. court for the “return or impoundment of call and text logs” and requested a hearing.

Pentagon Spokesperson Admits There’s A Secret Blacklist of Journalists

September 1, 2026 Nick Turse, Orinoco Tribune. , , , ,
U.S. Central Command maintains a secret directory of journalists who have been blacklisted by the press office, according to an official with CENTCOM public affairs. The disclosure comes amid a failed war in Iran, a “cover-up” of U.S. casualties from that conflict, and repeated refusals by CENTCOM to address questions about civilian deaths in Iran, including the killing of a family recently disclosed by The Intercept. The CENTCOM official who revealed the existence of the list threatened that this reporter could be added to it for calling the command too often.

Journalist Arrested While Documenting Enbridge Line 5 Construction

August 29, 2026 Devin Cupery, Unicorn Riot. , , ,
Ashland County, WI – Police arrested video journalist and Unicorn Riot contributor River Akemann while he was documenting Enbridge Line 5 construction on August 24. He was monitoring fish in a creek where Enbridge lacks necessary authorization to install its pipeline. He received four misdemeanor charges and was released later that day. The charges include disorderly conduct, trespassing, unlawful assembly, and resisting arrest. Canadian oil giant Enbridge has a secretive deal with Ashland County to reimburse the sheriff’s department to act as private security. Enbridge is paying police using the Wisconsin Counties Association, a lobbying group, as the pass through.

Violence Against Muslims Exacerbated By Islamophobes In Media

August 22, 2026 Janine Jackson, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. , , , ,
In February 2007, the highbrow National Book Critics Circle nominated, for Best Book in the Field of Criticism, a book called While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West From Within, widely viewed as denigrating an entire religious group, including by previous nominee Eliot Weinberger, who called it “racism as criticism.” The book didn’t win, but its serious recognition in high literary circles highlighted the mainstreaming of Islamophobia. FAIR produced a report looking at the media. We called it Smearcasting: How Islamophobes Spread Fear, Bigotry and Misinformation. 

PEN America Sells Out, Again

July 13, 2026 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. , , ,
PEN America, an organization founded to defend persecuted and censored writers, has once again made a mockery of itself with its call to protect Israeli writers from discrimination. Yes. Israeli writers. Its most recent screed, “A Silent Moratorium,” is so tone deaf and embarrassing that it triggered a widespread backlash. PEN America’s president, Dinaw Mengestu, resigned in protest. Mengestu told The New York Times the post is the most recent in a series of moves he felt are counter to the organization’s values and could harm efforts to preserve freedom of expression.

Trump Era Repression Trickles Down To Student Press Censorship

July 7, 2026 Hank Kennedy, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. , , ,
The Wingspan ran a cartoon in January by Aidan McClaren, comparing modern-day actions of ICE with the Palmer Raids against American radicals in the 1920s and the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. The well-known quote from George Santayana appears at the top: “Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.” A bystander observes, “Why does this look familiar…?” Political cartoonists in newspapers across the nation have made similar comparisons over the years, but the Wingspan is different, and its case differs from previous FAIR reports on censorship of cartoons, in that it is a student newspaper.

The Arrest Of Yousof Azizi And The Collapse Of ‘Free Speech’

April 19, 2026 Joshua Scheer, Scheer Post. , , ,
Inspired by the growing campaign to free Yousof Azizi, I looked deeper into his case—and what unfolds is not an anomaly, but a warning. This is what the erosion of academic freedom looks like in real time. A scholar taken. A voice removed. A mind deemed dangerous not for violence, but for dissent. Under the Trump regime, the university is no longer a sanctuary for inquiry—it is a hunting ground. The lecture hall gives way to surveillance. The visa becomes a leash. And the line between scholarship and subversion is redrawn by power. This brief report pulls together the fragments of a case that exposes something larger: a system increasingly intolerant of independent thought, where intellectual life itself is treated as a threat.

AI Used Against Associated Press And ProPublica Journalists

April 9, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. , , , , ,
New York—AI has hit the AP: At least 120 U.S. newspeople, some of them longtime veterans of the Associated Press, the worldwide wire service, have received layoff notices as a result, with buyout offers—but with little notice to and no negotiations with their union. AI—artificial intelligence—can be used for good or ill, but corporate executives are using it to guillotine people’s jobs, thus increasing company profits. The cost, however, as critics on social media pointed out, is in reduced coverage at a time when news consumers need unbiased information more than ever before.

How Will Corporate Lobbyists Fix Healthcare?

March 22, 2026 John Canham-Clyne, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. , , , ,
Corporate media political reporting has always been a clubby endeavor, but a recent reporting experience suggests that the insider culture in Washington, DC, is more insular than ever. It’s often a challenge for independent media to get responses from Washington insider sources—especially on stories critical of powerful actors—but it’s become increasingly difficult even to pose the questions to those sources. Corporate news sources now issue press releases without bothering to include any information about who to contact with follow-up questions, as if the source is handing the truth down from on high.

Press Freedom Groups Call For Release Of Journalist Arrested by ICE

March 16, 2026 Defending Rights and Dissent. , , , , ,
On Tuesday, a coalition of 41 press-freedom groups demanded that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement immediately release journalist Estefany Rodriguez. ICE failed to produce a warrant when Rodriguez, a Colombian-born reporter, was arrested on March 4, 2026. She has been in ICE custody since, moving between detention facilities with her current whereabouts likely in Alabama but unclear. Rodriguez had fled to the United States in 2021 after facing threats for her coverage of Colombia’s armed militia groups. She has since applied for political asylum in the United States, and has a pending green card application through her husband, who is a U.S. citizen.

FBI Spied On Washington Post Reporter Prior To Raiding Their Home

February 3, 2026 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , , ,
The FBI spied on Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson prior to raiding her home in Virginia. The bureau also obtained search warrants that allowed agents to force Natanson to unlock her devices if they were biometrically secured and depicted her as a reporter involved in a criminal conspiracy. On January 14, the FBI seized Natanson’s work laptop, personal laptop, iPhone, a terabyte hard drive, and Garmin running watch. The search warrants indicated that the raid was connected to an Espionage Act prosecution against Pentagon contractor Aurelio Perez-Lugones, one of Natanson’s alleged sources who had contacted her via the Signal messaging app. 

Reporter Raided By FBI Lost Contact With Over 1,000 Sources

January 24, 2026 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , ,
Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson says the FBI’s seizure of all of her devices has eliminated her “ability to collect information and publish news stories.” “I no longer have access to my more than 1,200 Signal contacts or communications with any of my sources. I literally cannot contact them without access to my devices. Nor can I review my past messages with them on Signal,” according to Natanson. Natanson also shares that the FBI essentially obtained “access to the Post newsroom” because she used Ellipsis on her computer. Ellipsis is a content management system that “provides an enormous window into The Post’s journalism, with all stories in progress.”

Officials Proudly Defend Raiding A Journalist’s Home

January 17, 2026 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , ,
President Donald Trump’s administration proudly defended the FBI raid of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s home. Officials insisted that Natanson should have “returned” classified information that she allegedly received while invoking President Barack Obama’s attacks on freedom of the press to excuse their intensified assaults on the rights of journalists.  The firm support from Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and the Trump White House was emblematic of an administration that has repeatedly singled out reporters as enemies of the United States.
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