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Reporter Arrested At East Palestine Train Derailment Press Conference Sues Police

Reporter Arrested At East Palestine Train Derailment Press Conference Sues Police

“I’m bringing this lawsuit because journalists should be able to cover newsworthy matters without fear of arrest or retaliation,” NewsNation reporter Evan Lambert declared.

Bipartisan Group Of Congress Members To Biden: Don't Extradite Assange

Bipartisan Group Of Congress Members To Biden: Don't Extradite Assange

The letter represents the largest congressional effort to date raising concerns with the ongoing prosecution of Assange.

Alabama Prosecutor Criminalizes Journalists For Publishing 'Grand Jury Evidence'

Alabama Prosecutor Criminalizes Journalists For Publishing 'Grand Jury Evidence'

The arrests were roundly condemned by press freedom organizations in the United States.

Detained Under UK Terrorism Law, Whistleblower Says Police Questioned His Support For Assange

Detained Under UK Terrorism Law, Whistleblower Says Police Questioned His Support For Assange

Support independent journalism on whistleblowers, government secrecy, and press freedom-related issues. Become a subscriber of The Dissenter. On his way back home from Iceland, British whistleblower and former diplomat Craig Murray was stopped by police and interrogated at Scotland's Glasgow Airport under Schedule 7 of the United Kingdom

Consortium News Sues NewsGuard, US Government For Alleged Defamation

Consortium News Sues NewsGuard, US Government For Alleged Defamation

Consortium News sued the United States government and NewsGuard Technologies for allegedly defaming the independent media organization and violating the organization’s First Amendment rights. A complaint [PDF] filed in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York claims that the Pentagon's U.S.

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders And The Lies She Spread About People 'Weaponizing FOIA'

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders And The Lies She Spread About People 'Weaponizing FOIA'

Hiding travel records by changing the state's decades-old open records law

GoFundMe Stops Grayzone News Website From Using Service

GoFundMe Stops Grayzone News Website From Using Service

Support independent journalism on whistleblowers, secrecy, and press freedom-related issues. Become a subscriber of The Dissenter. The crowdfunding platform GoFundMe halted a fundraiser for the news website the Grayzone and refused to transfer over $90,000 raised to the organization. When Grayzone editor-in-chief Max Blumenthal requested an explanation on August