The recordings helped dispel rumors about the police response to a mass shooting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, last year.

Recent legislation has trended toward more robust protections for defendants in SLAPP suits. Missouri became the seventeenth state to enact a version of the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act ...

Changing the terms of foreign journalists' visas might appear subtle, but it can have profound implications for press freedom ...

Several New York Times journalists received subpoenas seeking their testimony before a grand jury.

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A comprehensive and comparable list of federal cases involving the leakage of classified information to the news media. The chart below visualizes the increase in the number of Espionage Act cases ...

The Supreme Court recognized a First Amendment presumption of access to voir dire in Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior Court (“ Press-Enterprise I ”), 464 U.S. 501 (1984). Despite the agreement of the ...

Background: In April 2026, The Morning Call reporter Lindsay Weber filed a request under Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know Law ...

The Open Government Guide is a comprehensive guide to open government law and practice in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia detailing the rights of reporters and other citizens to see ...

AS 12.65.020 provides that the state medical examiner may perform a post-mortem examination, including an autopsy, necessary to make a proper determination of the cause of death and to complete the ...