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Judge Orders Voice of America to Restart All News Operations
Minho Kim has reported on President Trump's efforts to close down federally funded news groups since March 2025.
A federal judge on Tuesday nullified nearly all actions that the Trump administration took to shutter Voice of America, a federally funded news organization that broadcast to countries with limited press protections, including Iran, China and Russia.
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Press freedom concerns rise as Trump team pressures reporters
Through lectures, scoldings and outright threats, President Donald Trump and his aides are ratcheting up the pressure on journalists to cover the war in the Middle East the way the administration wants.
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Trump calls woman journalist a 'rotten reporter' after she asks why the FBI has seized Arizona voting records
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President Donald Trump called a reporter "rotten" after she asked him to provide evidence of election fraud justifying the recent seizure of election records in Arizona.
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Press freedom in the Americas saw a 'dramatic deterioration' last year, watchdog says
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Press freedom in the Americas suffered a "dramatic deterioration" in 2025, a regional watchdog said on Tuesday, following an assessment of conditions for the profession in 23 countries across the Western Hemisphere.
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Judge voids Kari Lake's actions as acting CEO of U.S. media agency
A federal judge ruled Saturday that Kari Lake, President Trump's choice to lead the U. S. Agency for Global Media, did not have legal authority to take the actions she's done to largely dismantle the Voice of America.
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Hong Kong mogul Jimmy Lai won't appeal national security conviction: lawyer
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Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai will not appeal against the national security conviction for which he was jailed for 20 years last month, his legal team said on Friday without providing a reason.
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Hong Kong ex-media mogul Jimmy Lai won't appeal national security conviction, legal team says
Lai, an outspoken critic of China's ruling Communist Party who founded the now-defunct Apple Daily, was found guilty in December of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and conspiring with others to publish seditious articles.
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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai will not appeal conviction, 20-year term, lawyer says
By Jessie Pang and James Pomfret
March 6 (Reuters) - Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai will not appeal against his conviction and 20-year jail term for collusion with foreign forces and sedition, his lawyer said on Friday, in a landmark case that has sparked international criticism.
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Federal judge to hear arguments over Pentagon's restrictions on press access
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge in Washington will hear arguments Friday over the legality of Department of Defense rules that require credentialed journalists to only report information previously authorized by the government, or risk losing their Pentagon press badges.
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DOJ to appeal judge's order barring search of Post reporter's devices
The Justice Department said in court Wednesday that it plans to appeal a judge's decision that blocked the government from searching through a Washington Post reporter's electronic devices as part of a leak investigation.
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The press faces a Pentagon 'black box' on the Iran war | CNN Business
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Wednesday's Pentagon press briefing by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen.
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The press faces a Pentagon 'black box' on the Iran war
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Wednesday's Pentagon press briefing by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen.
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Trump accepts White House Correspondents' Association dinner invitation for the first time as president
MSNBC correspondent and White House Correspondents Association President Eugene Daniels took aim at Trump on Saturday during the associations annual dinner, declaring the press was "not the opposition.
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Marty Baron talks Trump, 'faint-hearted' media owners at IU
In front of the next generation of student journalists at Indiana University, renowned newspaper editor Marty Baron said his fears of encroachment on the press and First Amendment freedoms have been realized -- and could become worse than he imagined.
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2 journalists in Belarus imprisoned as part of a crackdown on free speech, media groups say
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) -- A court in Belarus has convicted two independent journalists on charges of high treason and handed them long prison sentences, the latest move in the government's crackdown on dissent and free speech, a media rights group said Friday.
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Record killing of journalists reveals rising global threat to press freedom
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A record 129 journalists and media workers were killed worldwide in 2025, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), marking the deadliest year since the organisation began tracking such data more than three decades ago.
