Analysis

Original analyses on press freedom trends and monthly incident roundups written by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker staff with features on First Amendment issues published by our partner organizations.

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The press corps, and profound losses ahead

The perils of a press corps controlled by the president

Published

February 28, 2025

Written by

Kirstin McCudden
Entering Trump 2.0 after uptick in attacks on press last year

Published

January 31, 2025

Written by

Kirstin McCudden
All the president’s invective

Tracking Donald Trump's anti-press rhetoric online as both candidate and president

Published

January 14, 2025

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Charges — and punishments — for J6 rioters who hurt journalists, damaged news equipment

Published

January 24, 2025

Written by

U.S. Press Freedom Tracker Staff
Media in the courthouse

Published

January 6, 2025

Written by

Stephanie Sugars
Journalist arrests surge in 2024 amid Israel-Gaza war protests

Published

December 12, 2024

Written by

Stephanie Sugars
Politics and the press

Politics and the press: Tracking how the media is treated on the road to Election 2024

Published

November 5, 2024

Written by

U.S. Press Freedom Tracker Staff
Journalists were targeted, repeatedly attacked for documenting LA protests

Published

July 25, 2024

Written by

Stephanie Sugars
The cynicism of blaming the media for the Trump assassination attempt

Some of the critics in the aftermath of the Trump assassination seemed to be accusing journalists of being both overly reckless and, at least in their coverage of the shooting’s immediate aftermath, overly cautious.

Published

July 15, 2024

Written by

Jon Allsop
The public is paying the price for local government secrecy

Published

March 11, 2024

Written by

Stephanie Sugars
Members of the press charged with committing ‘acts of journalism’ in 2023

Published

December 20, 2023

Written by

Stephanie Sugars