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Subpoena issued for student reporting on wrongful imprisonment case

Incident Details

Updated on: November 19, 2025
Date of incident: March 7, 2025
Location: Detroit, Michigan
Targets: Sam Krevlin ([Northwestern University] Medill Investigative Lab)

Legal orders →: subpoena for communications or work product

March 7, 2025: Pending

March 13, 2025: Objected to

March 28, 2025: Ignored

Sept. 19, 2025: Objected to

Nov. 19, 2025: Quashed
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: Federal

Livestreamer arrested while filming LA traffic stop

Incident Details

Date of incident: March 5, 2025
Location: Los Angeles, California
Targets: Gonzalo Gonzalez (Independent)

Arrest status →: Arrested and released
Arresting authority →: Los Angeles Police Department
Charges →: Obstruction: delaying or obstructing a public officer

March 5, 2025: Charges pending

March 5, 2026: Charges dropped
Detention date →: March 5, 2025
Unnecessary use of force? →: No

Multimedia journalist questioned at LAX about immigration reporting

Incident Details

Date of incident: March 3, 2025
Location: Los Angeles, California
Targets: Anonymous reporter 8 (Freelance)

Border point →: Los Angeles International Airport
Target nationality →: Mexico

United States
US citizenship status of target →: U.S. citizen
Denied entry? →: No
Stopped previously? →: No
Asked for device access? →: No
Asked intrusive questions about work? →: Yes

Journalism adviser pulled from post at California high school, wins reinstatement

Incident Details

Date of incident: March 2025
Location: San Francisco, California
Case number: CPF-25-519159
Targets: The [Lowell High School] Lowell
Case status: Verdict issued
Type of case: Civil

Other Incident

White House wrests control of presidential press pool from correspondents

Incident Details

Updated on: May 12, 2025
Date of incident: February 25, 2025
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: White House Correspondents' Association

Government agency or public official involved →: Federal government: White House
Type of denial →: Change in policy or practice

Editor stopped and questioned by official at Virginia airport

Incident Details

Date of incident: February 24, 2025
Location: Dulles, Virginia
Targets: Max Blumenthal (The Grayzone)

Border point →: Washington Dulles International Airport
Target nationality →: United States
US citizenship status of target →: U.S. citizen
Denied entry? →: No
Stopped previously? →: No
Asked for device access? →: No
Asked intrusive questions about work? →: No

Chicago reporter ‘booted’ from community meeting by city councilman’s staff

Incident Details

Date of incident: February 20, 2025
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Targets: Francia Garcia Hernandez (Block Club Chicago)

Government agency or public official involved →: Local government: Legislature
Type of denial →: Government event

Mississippi newspaper ordered to remove editorial critical of city officials

Incident Details

Updated on: February 26, 2025
Date of incident: February 18, 2025
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
Targets: The Clarksdale Press Register

Status of prior restraint →: Dropped
Mistakenly released materials? →: No

U.S. Consulate official in Curaçao pressured editor to remove opinion piece

Incident Details

Date of incident: February 14, 2025
Location: Willemstad, Curaçao
Targets: Aldrich Hermelijn (Curaçao Chronicle)

Other Incident

Karoline Leavitt targets media as White House press secretary

Incident Details

Date of incident: February 12, 2025
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: Media, The Associated Press

Chilling Statement

AP reporters barred from White House events over editorial style policy

Incident Details

Updated on: June 6, 2025
Date of incident: February 11, 2025
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Case number: 1:25-cv-00532
Targets: The Associated Press
Case status: Ongoing
Type of case: Civil

Government agency or public official involved →: Federal government: White House
Type of denial →: Government event

Boston TV station turns over interview recordings, notes ahead of murder trial

Incident Details

Date of incident: February 7, 2025
Location: Dedham, Massachusetts
Targets: WFXT

Legal orders →: subpoena for communications or work product

Feb. 7, 2025: Pending

Feb. 19, 2025: Upheld

March 3, 2025: Carried out
Legal order target →: Institution
Legal order venue →: State

More than 75 Lee Enterprises newspapers affected by cyberattack

Incident Details

Updated on: February 27, 2025
Date of incident: February 3, 2025
Location: Davenport, Iowa
Targets: Lee Enterprises

Other Incident

FCC demands CBS turn over interview transcript

Incident Details

Date of incident: January 29, 2025
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: CBS News

Legal orders →: subpoena for communications or work product

Jan. 29, 2025: Pending

Feb. 3, 2025: Carried out
Legal order target →: Institution
Legal order venue →: Federal

Freelance photojournalist arrested at anti-deportation protest in Indiana

Incident Details

Updated on: March 27, 2025
Date of incident: January 18, 2025
Location: Gary, Indiana
Targets: Matthew Kaplan (Freelance)

Arrest status →: Arrested and released
Arresting authority →: Gary Police Department
Charges →: Obstruction: disorderly conduct

Jan. 18, 2025: Charges pending

March 27, 2025: Charges dropped

Obstruction: resisting law enforcement

Jan. 18, 2025: Charges pending

March 27, 2025: Charges dropped

Trespassing: criminal trespass

Jan. 18, 2025: Charges pending

March 27, 2025: Charges dropped
Detention date →: January 18, 2025
Unnecessary use of force? →: No

Two journalists removed from briefing after interrupting Blinken

Incident Details

Date of incident: January 16, 2025
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: Sam Husseini (Independent), Max Blumenthal (The Grayzone)

Other Incident

Kansas House bans reporting from floor, mirroring move in Senate

Incident Details

Date of incident: January 10, 2025
Location: Topeka, Kansas
Targets: Media

Government agency or public official involved →: State government: Legislature
Type of denial →: Change in policy or practice

Colorado TV reporter tackled, choked outside station in apparent bias attack

Incident Details

Updated on: January 9, 2026
Date of incident: December 18, 2024
Location: Grand Junction, Colorado
Targets: Ja’Ronn Alex (KKCO/KJCT)

Assailant →: Private individual
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

New Yorker writer subpoenaed ahead of Massachusetts murder trial

Incident Details

Updated on: May 16, 2025
Date of incident: December 18, 2024
Location: Brockton, Massachusetts
Targets: Eren Orbey (The New Yorker), Condé Nast

Legal orders →: subpoena for communications or work product

Dec. 18, 2024: Pending

Feb. 7, 2025: Upheld

March 14, 2025: Objected to

May 16, 2025: Dropped
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: State

Freelance reporter subpoenaed in connection with defamation suit

Incident Details

Date of incident: December 18, 2024
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Targets: Lily Dobrovolskaya (Freelance)

Legal orders →: subpoena for communications or work product

Dec. 18, 2024: Pending

Jan. 16, 2025: Objected to

March 7, 2025: Quashed
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: Federal

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