Tag: Press Freedom

This April 15, 2019 photo shows a copy of the day's Capital Gazette newspaper in a newsstand in Annapolis, Md.

US falls to 48th in annual free press index

Daniel Jativa · April 18, 2019 1:49 pm

Presidential hopeful U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, speaks at an event Monday, March 18, 2019, in Las Vegas.

Tulsi Gabbard: Assange case a ‘dangerous and slippery slope’ of government power

Diana Stancy Correll · April 11, 2019 11:11 pm

Jill Stein's party gives up in Pennsylvania. (Christopher Dolan/The Citizens' Voice via AP, File)

National Security

Jill Stein brands Julian Assange arrest ‘an attack on fundamental press freedom’

John Gage · April 11, 2019 10:12 pm

Univisionâs Jorge Ramos shows a video he says his crew shot the previous day showing Venezuelan youth picking food scraps out of the back of a garbage truck in Caracas, during an interview at a hotel in Caracas, Venezuela.

Jorge Ramos deported and banned from Venezuela

Daniel Jativa · February 26, 2019 5:18 pm

A man is restrained after he began shoving members of the media during a rally for President Donald Trump at the El Paso County Coliseum, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, in El Paso, Texas.

Man who ambushed the press at Trump’s El Paso rally won’t be charged

Anna Giaritelli · February 13, 2019 7:04 pm

"She's always been willing to talk to the authorities," Sen.Sherrod Brown said. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz, File)

Washington Secrets

2020 Democrat blames Trump for ‘encouraging violence’ against reporters at rallies

Paul Bedard · February 12, 2019 3:55 pm

President Trump listens to a question from CNN journalist Jim Acosta during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in D.C.

‘Dear Diary’: Trump mocks Jim Acosta’s border tweet

Anna Giaritelli · January 11, 2019 2:08 am

New White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci speaks to members of the media in the Brady Press Briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 21, 2017.

Anthony Scaramucci: Trump ‘is making a very big mistake’ in imposing rules on media

Katelyn Caralle · November 20, 2018 2:47 pm

President Trump speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, in Washington.

White House yanks press pass of CNN’s Jim Acosta

Allison Elyse Gualtieri · November 8, 2018 1:23 am

British lawmaker Jeremy Corbyn gives a speech.

Red Alert Politics

Jeremy Corbyn wants to destroy the free press

Tamara Berens · October 18, 2018 4:40 pm

RT, which airs in the U.S., is widely believed to be a propaganda arm of the Kremlin. Sputnik is largely based online and is said to serve the same function.

DHS warns against reading Russia’s state-owned news outlets

Anna Giaritelli · October 2, 2018 3:46 pm

Former President Barack Obama speaks in Foellinger Auditorium on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana, Ill.

Beltway Confidential

Obama, whose administration prosecuted and spied on reporters, claims Trump is very bad for criticizing newsrooms

Becket Adams · September 7, 2018 8:46 pm