freedom of the press

The journalist was blocked from entering a government press event, but by Australian officials.

Some spies pretend to be journalists themselves, while others cultivate legitimate journalists in the hope they will gain ...

A controversial law that could have meant publishers paying the legal costs of people who sued them is ...

Commentary It’s astonishing how lies can take hold in political rhetoric and then become some kind of fake ...

Tehran's Revolutionary Court has sentenced two journalists to lengthy prison sentences for collaboration with the United States and ...

Commentary Recent polling shows that a majority of Americans favor government restrictions on false information online. According to ...

An assistant U.S. Attorney withdrew a motion to muzzle an internet reporter covering the sentencing of a man ...

Commentary The U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) has quietly announced the rollout of an automated anti-disinformation tool, iVerify, this spring. ...

Commentary Ignoring pleas from publishers for the preservation of their independence, Canada’s ruling party has turned up the ...

Bao Choy Yuk-ling, journalist and former producer of RTHK (local media), was found guilty of making false statements ...

The Federal Leader's Debates Commission has settled a defamation lawsuit out of court with Rebel News Network Ltd. for ...

In an escalating campaign to suppress freedom of speech, China’s communist authorities have arrested and charged 11 Chinese ...

Commentary President Donald Trump is famous—or infamous—for calling certain mainstream news outlets the “fake news media” and even ...

Commentary We complain constantly about how vulgar, hateful, and polarized our public discourse has become. But most of ...

The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke removed a reporter from Breitbart News at an event held ...

WASHINGTON—A protest across from the Royal Thai Embassy on Feb. 7 called for the release of Mr. Chiang ...

Commentary LONDON–The British media—print and electronic—have been in conflict with the government, regulatory authorities, celebrities protecting their privacy ...

China continues to be among the world’s worst abuser of press freedom and jails the largest number of ...

China issued broad new rules last week banning foreign-owned companies from “online publishing” that could have far-reaching implications ...

With a press freedom index on par with the United States as recently as 10 years ago, the ...

The press is needed to check abuses of power, but changes in the news industry raise questions about ...

It has been widely reported that American reporters in China are having problems getting their residency visas renewed ...

I was among the many media wannabe reformers to attend the 10th anniversary party of Free Press (freepress.net), ...

Outspoken billionaire publisher Chen Ping was attacked and beaten by thugs outside his Hong Kong office on June ...