When @npub192uz...ccwj made FOIA-based stories free, subscriptions went up. When @npub1psar...j5uh published public records reporting without a paywall, new sources came forward. We spoke to both about why dropping paywalls like this is good for journalism — and for business.
Freedom of the Press
Wired and 404 Media make FOIA reporting free. Other news outlets should too
We spoke to Katie Drummond of Wired, Joseph Cox of 404 Media, and Lauren Harper of Freedom of the Press Foundation about the case for unpaywalling ...
Indiana University ordered its student-run newspaper to cease all print publication Oct. 15, less than one day after the administration fired the student newspaper’s adviser.
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
Indiana University orders student paper to stop printing after firing adviser
Administrators at Indiana University Bloomington fired the adviser to the Indiana Daily Student on Oct. 14, 2025, and then hours …
The detention by ICE of British journalist and commentator Sami Hamdi solely for his views while on a speaking tour in the U.S. is a blatant assault on free speech. These are the tactics of the Thought Police.
the Guardian
ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour
Trump ally Laura Loomer took credit for Sami Hamdi’s detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’
"Instead of holding the [LAPD] accountable, the city is spending even more money to hire an outside law firm so they can effectively beg a judge for permission to keep assaulting journalists for just doing their job," FPF's Adam Rose told LAist.
LAist
LAPD wants judge to lift an order restricting use of force against the press
The police department filed an emergency order ahead of this Saturday's No Kings protest.
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So much for Facebook's renewed commitment to free speech. And so much for this administration's condemnation of social media censorship. How long will it be before the DOJ demands platforms remove news reporting on ICE?
Chicago Sun-Times
Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request
The group ICE Sighting-Chicagoland has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to ...
A federal court just blocked a ridiculous law that banned almost all speech on public college campuses in Texas after 10 p.m., including student journalism. Huge win by FIRE defending the First Amendment. Free speech doesn’t have a curfew.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
VICTORY: Federal court halts Texas’ ‘no First Amendment after dark’ campus speech ban
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking the University of Texas from enforcing a law that bans virtually all free speech on public...
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A new bill that recently passed the Senate will let members of Congress censor information about themselves online. The result is easy to predict: suppression of the press from reporting about Congress. Check out this op-ed from FPF's Caitlin Vogus:
Dallas News
Cruz-Klobuchar bill would sacrifice speech for a false sense of security
Cruz-Klobuchar bill censors online information too broadly in the name of security, writes senior adviser at Freedom of the Press Foundation.
The hate crime charge against Alexa Wilkinson for photographing vandalism of the New York Times building is a dangerous precedent, no matter what you think of Wilkinson.
Freedom of the Press
Journalist or not, photography isn’t a hate crime
Gatekeeping over hate crime charges misses the forest for the trees