Second annual survey of U.S. Press Freedom Tracker data indicates a troubling escalation in the level of violence aimed at journalists and government actions threatening press freedoms U.S.

On March 26, 2019, Freemuse, the world’s leading independent international organization advocating for and defending freedom of artistic expression, launched its annual report, The State of Artistic ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In June, a man entered the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, and shot and killed four journalists and a ...

As we mark World Press Freedom Day today and celebrate the important role of a free press throughout the world, we’re also looking back at what Reporters Committee attorneys have done so far this year ...

Cover of the “United States Commission on International Religious Freedom: 2018 Annual Report.” Image courtesy of USCIRF via RNS (RNS) — The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom cited ...

In his new book Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear, Mike Ananny, a professor at University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and ...

Washington, D.C. — Democracy is in retreat globally and some say in the United States as well. Exacerbating the democratic backslide are authoritarian regimes such as Russia and China, which have ...

The 24th edition of the Index of Economic Freedom (www.heritage.org/index/) evaluates economic conditions and government policies in 186 countries. Monday, Apr 9 ...

Demonstrators hold signs at a “Families Belong Together” rally across from the White House in Washington last week. (Michael Reynolds/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) Every ...

As democracies around the world struggle to hold back the rising tide of authoritarianism, a similar crisis is unfolding online. Three factors converged this year to make 2018 the eighth straight year ...