Our #NoKings Celebration in Support of First Amendment Rights and #PressFreedom
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A major win for transparency. When federal agents are barred from "indiscriminate force" against the press, the public gets a clearer view of the facts. In 2026, the "Extraordinary" protection of our civil liberties is what keeps the market—and the community—stabilized. 🧭✨ #PressFreedom #LosAngeles
CHANNELDRAW: Portraits of Lebanese journalists killed by the Israeli army www.channeldraw.org/2026/03/31/p... @channeldraw.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #pressfreedom #freepress #journalismisnotacrime
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📣 Happening tomorrow!
The upcoming general #election puts the fate of #pressfreedom in #Hungary at yet another major crossroads. Join us to discuss what the upcoming elections hold for the country’s embattled media.
🗓️ April 2 | 15:00 CET | Register buff.ly/IegOLpD
"We’re all going to have to step up and be the best kind of citizens, the best-informed citizens that we know how to be, even as it becomes more difficult in the face of authoritarian pressure and new technology.” David Frum, The David Frum Show, June 4, 2025 World Press Freedom Canada Wednesday, April 29 National Arts Centre, Ottawa
What happens when press freedom and democracy are in a state of crisis?
It’s what David Frum has been warning about for years. Read the latest edition of Dispatch, our bimonthly newsletter, to learn why his message matters now more than ever. worldpressfreedomcanada.ca/dispatch/ #pressfreedom
The kidnapping of an American journalist in Baghdad is raising urgent international questions about Iraq’s stability, militia influence, and the safety of foreign media personnel.
#WorldNews #BaghdadCrisis #PressFreedom #IraqSecurity #GlobalDiplomacy
#pressfreedom 5:30pm #Berkeley www.indybay.org/newsitems/20...
AP: Judge blocks Trump's executive order to end federal funding for PBS and NPR
#publicmedia #PBS #NPR #Trump #pressfreedom
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An American journalist was kidnapped Tuesday in Baghdad and Iraqi security forces are pursuing her captors, Iraqi officials said
The journalist was identified as freelancer Shelly Kittleson by one of the outlets she worked for
#Iraq #freepress #pressfreedom #journalism #journalist
US Federal judge: Defunding of #NPR
violated #FreedomOfSpeech
#PublicBroadcasting #PressFreedom #uspol
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And a darker question for my specific context:
As the state tries to finish off the open internet in Russia, will there be any "agents" left online at all - other than the human ones from the secret services?
#ONA26 #Journalism #AI #MediaStrategy #B2A2C #PressFreedom
U.S. PRESS FREEDOM TRACKER: A database of press freedom incidents in the US everything from arrests of journalists and the seizure of their equipment to assaults pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/ @pressfreedomtracker.us #photojournalism #journalism #pressfreedom #freepress #journalismisnotacrime
The @globalfreemedia.bsky.social #IPI wrote to #Google CEO Pichai to raise urgent concerns about the destructive impact of the company's recent #algorithm updates on the independent #journalism in #Turkey: turkiye.ipi.media/letter-to-go...
#PressFreedom #MediaPluralism #AlgorithmicTransparency
EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF JOURNALISTS: Serbia: Brutal assaults on journalists reporting on the local election require urgent response from authorities europeanjournalists.org/blog/2026/03... @efjeurope.bsky.social #IWD2026 #photojournalism #journalism #journalismisnotacrime #pressfreedom
REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS: Protection against Russian kamikaze drones: RSF publishes a guide for journalists working in Ukraine rsf.org/s/95855 @rsf.org #photojournalism #journalism #journalismisnotacrime #pressfreedom
Can Europe’s public service media survive attacks by the far right? www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... #PublicServiceBroadcasting #Media #Broadcasting #Television #Radio #News #Journalism #PressFreedom #JournalismIsNotACrime #France #Italy #Poland #Hungary #Germany #RSF #ReportersWithoutBorders
#Lebanon: "We join with the IFJ and unions across the globe in condemning without reservation the repeated targeting by Israel of media workers." #pressfreedom
Pay Attention! The Pentagon is freezing out the independent media and badmouthing journalists and, defying a judge’s order to reinstate journalists’ access to the premises. #PressFreedom is your freedom, even during war. ✊👇
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What should we do?
We'll adapt
As always
We will find new ways to reach our audience and tell the truth. Because that's the job
#PressFreedom #ONA26 #IndependentMedia
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Lebanon’s president called it a “blatant crime” and the government plans to take the case to the U.N. Security Council.
Their deaths highlight the dangers faced by those reporting from the frontlines.
#PressFreedom #Journalism #Lebanon #journalismisnotacrime
Press freedom isn't a theory—it’s a frontline battle. 📰🛡️ Tomorrow’s Herb Caen Lecture at Cal with @CPJ’s Ginsberg, @WashingtonPost’s Rezaian, and the @SFChronicle is the 2026 reality check we need. 'Facts over Feelings' starts with protecting those who report them. 🏛️🐝 #PressFreedom #UCBerkeley
*The Pentagon just closed all their press offices. They called it a 'logistics decision.’ Sounds a lot like the Ministry of Truth Social will now be the only news source allowed. henceforth." - Snarky Orwell
Is it too much to ask that ‘Truth’™ contain some actual truth?
#SnarkyOrwell #MinistryOfTruthSocial #Pentagon #OrwellWasAnOptimist #IgnoranceIsStrength #PressFreedom #PentagonPress
Canada has some problematic laws that give presumptive rights for religious worship over #PressFreedom & #protests.
In 2012, the #UnitarianUniversalist "church" accused me of violating Canada's #BlasphemyLaw for blogging about #UUpedophiles & rapists. 😇
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(🧵1/3) ECAJ meets the AFR editor tomorrow to suppress a political cartoon, as the new Israeli Ambassador Hillel Newman gives an unpublicised address at the National Press Club - despite his appalling questioning of the killing of 165 Iranian schoolgirls.
#auspol #israellobby #MediaBias #PressFreedom
(🧵1/3) 🇦🇺📢🇮🇱 Double-standards on political satire. One complaint from the pro-Israel lobby and it’s a meeting with the editor, or from the SMH a grovelling apology on Cathy Wilcox’s cartoon on astroturfing for a Royal Commission.
#auspol #israellobby #MediaBias #PressFreedom #PoliticalSatire
Macronisme et Liberté de la presse #PressFreedom #France
Open letter to all global news outlets, media agencies, journalists and reporters. Action required. #News #Media #Newsagency #Newsroom #Journalist #Journalism #reporters #Democracy #politics #pressfreedom @bloomberg.com