From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Journalist and co-founder of Unraveled Press Raven Geary was one of several members of the press shot with crowd-control munitions while reporting outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Friday:
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
Journalist shot in the face with pepper ball at Illinois ICE facility protest
Journalist Raven Geary was shot in the face with a pepper ball by federal officers while reporting on protests outside …
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Two journalists are set to be tried in Kentucky this week. Their crime? Covering a protest of the immigration detainment of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt. Soliman’s lawyer called it a “cruel irony.”
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On trial for journalism in Kentucky.
Two months after their arrests while covering a protest, a pair of local reporters face criminal charges.
📩 Read in our weekly newsletter (and subscribe): - Journalist Mario Guevara, facing deportation, deserves same energy as Kimmel - How noncitizen journalists can prepare for ICE - Drop charges against Cincinnati journalists - Plus, what we're reading...
Freedom of the Press
Mobilize for Mario Guevara like you did for Jimmy Kimmel
Plus: How noncitizen journalists can prepare for ICE
Jimmy Kimmel's worst case scenario was moving from prime time to a podcast. Mario Guevara's is being shipped to El Salvador and facing more of the persecution he fled 20 years ago. If that happens, the chilling effect will be impossible to measure.
Freedom of the Press
Americans rallied for Jimmy Kimmel. Do the same for Mario Guevara
Atlanta journalist faces imminent deportation for reporting the news
Your kitchen cabinets? A national security threat. Your favorite movie? Also a national security threat. Your favorite cocktail? Possibly also a national security threat. Here’s our current top five list of the dumbest things officials have done, or kept secret, ostensibly to protect national security.
Freedom of the Press
Your kitchen cabinets are a national security threat
The dumbest things the government has done, or hidden, in the name of national security
"Security experts at several news organizations told me they are increasingly concerned about the risk of physical harm." Read Joel Simon on some simple steps news orgs can take to protect their journalists:
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News organizations are increasingly concerned about the risk of violence.
Security experts at several news organizations say they are increasingly concerned about the risk of violence.
Trump’s EO labeling antifa a “domestic terrorist organization” can and will be used to threaten journalists and sources. Journalists who cover antifa or report on ICE must now risk being accused of “terrorism.” The EO is illegal, but it still chills speech. The intimidation is the point.
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Trump signs order labeling antifa ‘domestic terrorist organization’
President Trump on Monday signed an order designating the anti-fascist movement antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, following through on a...
“Journalists have every right to cover protests and their aftermath, and when police disperse protestors, it does not mean they can disperse and arrest journalists doing their constitutionally protected jobs,” FPF's Seth Stern told Link nky.
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Prosecutors urged to dismiss charges against journalists arrested on Roebling Bridge
An open letter is asking Kenton County prosecutors to drop the charges against two journalists arrested on the Roebling Bridge in July.
Absolutely horrific. Israel continues to murder journalists in all directions with complete impunity, including this latest attack in which it killed 31 journalists in Yemen. This marks the deadliest single attack on the press in 16 years, per CPJ. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/19/yemen-journalists-strike-israel-houthis
"We've seen [Trump] sue ABC, CBS, he's sued the Des Moines Register and now he's sued the Times. This is something he has done over and over again anytime he is confronted with independent reporting he doesn't like," Caitlin Vogus told Erie News Now. https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/53091468/potential-chilling-effect-on-journalism-following-trumps-dollar15-billion-defamation-lawsuit-against-the-new-york-times