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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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Election-related free press violations, 2017-present

February 18, 2025

Press freedom violations in connection with U.S. elections, 2017-forward
All the president’s invective

January 14, 2025

Tracking Donald Trump's anti-press rhetoric online as both candidate and president
Journalists arrested in the U.S. 2017-present

December 12, 2024

Arrests and detainments of journalists in the U.S. year-over-year overview, 2017-forward
BLM and unprecedented aggressions against media

May 25, 2024

We're documenting assaults, arrests of journalists covering the Black Lives Matter movement and media whose coverage has been subjected to legal orders, like subpoenas.