Journalism

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

April 19, 2026 Joshua Scheer, Scheer Post. Resist! Detention, ICE, Journalism, Yousof Azizi

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. Resist! Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cooperatives, Journalism, Pro Publica, Strikes, Unions

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. Educate! Health Care, Journalism, Media, Press Freedom, Transparency

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. Resist! Detention, Estefany Rodrigiez, ICE, Journalism, Press Freedom, State Repression

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. Educate! FBI, Journalism, Press Freedom, Surveillance, Washington Post

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. Educate! FBI, Journalism, Press Freedom, Washington Post

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. Educate! Journalism, Press Freedom, Trump Administration, Washington Post

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.

Journalist Town Hall Sounds Alarm On Freedom Of The Press

January 9, 2026 Chauncey K. Robinson, People's World. Resist! Censorship, Journalism, Press Freedom, State Repression

Former Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black once wrote in an opinion on the 1971 case New York Times Co. v. United States: “In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the government. The press was protected so that it could bear the secrets of government and inform the people.”

‘Cover-Up’: The Complicity Of The Press In US Violence

January 6, 2026 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. Educate! Censorship, Documentary, Journalism, New York Times (NYT), Press Freedom, Seymour Hersh

All governments lie. Seymour Hersh built his journalism career around the creed that it’s a reporter’s job to expose government lies, especially those told by the United States government. Hersh unraveled a number of major cover-ups and earned a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. And yet, despite repeated lawless and violent acts throughout history, prestige media organizations remain reluctant to encourage journalism that questions the U.S. military and broader security state. Most editors and producers shun reporters, who dare to follow in Hersh’s footsteps.

What A Century-Old Press Service Teaches Us About Worker Power

December 12, 2025 Victoria Grieve, Power At Work. Educate! History, Journalism, Labor Movement, Media, Women, Worker Rights and Jobs

This won’t come as a surprise to union activists, but the mainstream press doesn’t always fairly represent the labor movement. That was true in 1919, the year the Federated Press (FP) was founded, and it remains true today. The FP was created to counteract the anti-labor bias in the mainstream press during the post-World War I strike wave. At the first convention of the Farmer-Labor Party, a coalition of labor activists, editors, and socialists hatched the idea for a cooperative, labor-oriented press service that would provide national and international news to subscribing labor newspapers. Imagine the Associated Press, but written by and for labor.

YouTube Wipes UK Journalist’s Archive After Israeli-Linked Pressure

December 11, 2025 Al Mayadeen, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Censorship, Freedom of Expression, Genocide, Human Rights, Illegal Settlements, Journalism, Silicon Valley, YouTube

In February 2024, YouTube unexpectedly removed the account of independent British journalist Robert Inlakesh, a frequent contributor to Al Mayadeen English, The Intercept reported. His channel held dozens of videos, including many livestreams documenting Israeli occupation in the West Bank. Over roughly ten years covering developments in occupied Palestine, he filmed Israeli forces tearing down Palestinian homes, police stopping and intimidating Palestinian drivers, and soldiers firing at Palestinians and journalists during demonstrations outside illegal settlements. All of that footage vanished instantly.

New York Times Sues Over Pentagon Policy

December 5, 2025 Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams. Resist! Journalism, Media, New York Times (NYT), Pentagon, Press Freedom

Press freedom advocates on Thursday welcomed the New York Times’ lawsuit over the US Department of Defense’s “flatly unconstitutional” press policy, filed on the heels of the first briefing for what critics call the “Pentagon Propaganda Corps.” The newspaper and Times reporter Julian E. Barnes, one of several journalists who refused to sign the policy earlier this year, are suing the DOD—which President Donald Trump has dubbed the Department of War—as well as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson, Sean Parnell, in the US District Court in Washington, D.C.

FBI Allegedly Targeted Filipino American Journalist Now In Detention

November 26, 2025 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. Educate! DACA, FBI, ICE, Journalism, Palestine, State Repression

Filipino American journalist Ya'akub Vijandre was allegedly targeted by the FBI in retaliation for his refusal to become an informant. The FBI reviewed Vijandre’s immigration record and social media posts, and then recommended that immigration services terminate his DACA status, according to Vijandre’s attorneys. Vijandre is currently detained at a for-profit ICE detention center in Folkston, Georgia, operated by GEO Group. He was arrested “at gunpoint” outside his home in Arlington, Texas, on October 7, 2025. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) pointed to his reporting on pro-Palestinian protests and various cases in the “global war on terrorism” to justify their actions.

Breaking Out Of Media Group-Think

November 22, 2025 Jonathan Cook, Consortium News. Educate! Censorship, Israel, Journalism, Journalists, Media, Palestine

The past two years have seen a catastrophic failure by Western journalists to report properly what amounts to an undoubted genocide in Gaza. This has been a low point even by the dismal standards set by our profession, and further reason why audiences continue to distrust us in ever greater numbers. There is a comforting argument — comforting especially for those journalists who have failed so scandalously during this period — that seeks to explain, and excuse, this failure. Israel’s exclusion of Western reporters, so the claim goes, has made it impossible to determine exactly what is occurring on the ground in Gaza.

Over 150 New York Times Contributors To Boycott Paper Over Gaza Coverage

October 28, 2025 Middle East Eye. Resist! Boycotts, Israel, Journalism, Media, New York Times (NYT), Palestine, Palestine Solidarity

More than 150 New York Times contributors have signed a pledge not to write for the US newspaper's opinion section, citing its “biased coverage” of the Israel-Palestine conflict and war on Gaza. “Until The New York Times takes accountability for its biased coverage and commits to truthfully and ethically reporting on the US-Israeli war on Gaza, any putative 'challenge' to the newsroom or the editorial board in the form of a first-person essay is, in effect, permission to continue this malpractice,” the signatories to the letter wrote. “Only by withholding our labor can we mount an effective challenge to the hegemonic authority that the Times has long used to launder the US and Israel’s lies,” the writers added.

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