Freedom of the Press: Views from the Front Line Resources

Francia Garcia Hernandez

Call to Action: Support your local media. In Chicago, that’s Block Club Chicago! Learn more about Block Club Chicago’s work by following us and visiting our website.

• Website: https://blockclubchicago.org/

• Read Francia’s recent journalism:
• Chicago Under Siege: How Operation Midway Blitz Changed Our City
• A personal piece on reporting on immigration as an immigrant
• Podcast Chicago Under Siege: How Operation Midway Blitz Changed Our City
• Francia Garcia Hernandez’s reporting

Bruce Brown:

• Call to action: Support the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: https://www.rcfp.org/
• Donate here: https://www.rcfp.org/donate/

David McCraw:

• Call to action: Support the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press as well as local journalism. Support them with your money, or donate to philanthropies that support local journalism.

• Read David’s book, Truth in Our Times Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts, MacMillan Publishers 

Dick Tofel:

• Call to action: Support the panelists’ [aforementioned] organizations. Remind the people in your life that the press is composed of Americans trying to do their job through a difficult moment in this country.

• Subscribe to Dick’s substack, Second Rough Draft: Journalism In Our Time
• Read his latest piece on Freedom of the Press: "Freedom of the Press Isn’t Just a Legal Issue. Why constitutional values are even more important than case law"

IMPORTANT LANDMARK LEGAL CASES

• New York Times Company v. Sullivan, Oyez 

• FACE Act definition, Congress.gov 

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION VS THE PRESS

• According to Reporters without Borders, the United States is now 64th on a list of countries in terms of strong press freedom

• Journalists say unprecedented FBI raid on reporter’s home will have ‘widespread ramifications,’ Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press 

• Trump Administration Sues New York Times Over Claim It Discriminated Against White Man, Wall Street Journal

• 8 ways Trump is shrinking the space for press freedom – literally, Reporters Without Borders 

• Trump sues Iowa newspaper over shock election poll, BBC

• Federal judge: Pentagon press access policy is unconstitutional, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press 

• AP statement on Oval Office access 

• Judge orders White House to allow AP access to news events, NPR 

REPORTING ON IMMIGRATION

• Nashville journalist released on bond from ICE custody; a legal challenge to her arrest continues, Tennessee Lookout 

• Judge Rules Feds Can’t Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue, Block Club Chicago 

• A journalist filmed an ICE protest at a Minnesota church. Then federal agents showed up at her door, The Guardian 

• The Fact Check Team: What is the FACE Act - the law Don Lemon is charged with breaking, Komo News 

AI AND JOURNALISM

• Publishers and Authors Sue Meta, Alleging ‘Massive’ Copyright Infringement Behind Its Llama AI Service, Publishing Perspectives 

THE PROLIFERATION OF LOCAL NEWS

• Study Reveals How Everyday People Are Shaping Local News – and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever, Informs.org