Aaron Cantú, a staff writer for the Santa Fe Reporter and an editor at the New Inquiry, was arrested along with 230 others in January when he was covering the inauguration protests as a freelance journalist. The six other journalists arrested and charged with rioting have since seen their charges dropped, but charges…
In a chilling preview of what freedom of the press will look like in Trump’s America, two journalists arrested while covering Inauguration Day protests in Washington DC have been slapped with felony charges. They could face up to 10 years in prison and $25,000 in fines if convicted.
As we gear up for the incoming administration, it can be difficult not to sink into a kind of despair; watching Trump’s cabinet appointments, for instance, is like having a night terror featuring a surrealist clown car, wherein the clowns all want to kill you. But here’s Christiane Amanpour, reminding us all to steady…
Having snuck past the crowd waiting for him in the ground-floor lobby, president-elect Donald Trump took questions from reporters at the New York Times Tuesday, whose coverage of him he has deemed “not nice.” Mike Grynbaum and Maggie Haberman, among others, livetweeted the meeting. Let’s see how what he told the Times …
Over the course of Donald Trump’s unprecedentedly awful presidential campaign, political journalists were made well-aware not only that their excruciating and underpaid work goes discounted by an apparently significant percentage of the country in favor of fake Macedonian Facebook articles, but also that, thanks to…
President-elect Donald Trump left New York for Washington, D.C. Thursday morning, where he is meeting with Barack Obama at the White House to begin the peaceful transition of power. Breaking with tradition, Trump did not allow his press pool to travel with him to the nation’s capital.
Four women suing Girls Gone Wild, at least one of whom was 13 when filmed, are asking that their names stay under wraps. But several newspapers have argued in court that they have a right to know the women's names.
Here's an opposition response to the lingerie-clad pro-Putin calendar girls. Alas, our reader-submitted taglines, including "I want you to tie me down and gag me like you do to the free press," came too late.
Formerly detained journalist Roxana Saberi has announced that she is working on a memoir to be released in March 2010. The book will cover her arrest in January, her trial and sentencing, and eventual release. [AP]
A week after Saberi returned to the U.S. following her 100-day imprisonment, she and her parents met with Clinton at the State Department. At a conference in the Netherlands in March, Clinton broke with the usual diplomatic isolation of Iran and passed a letter supporting Saberi's release directly to the country's…
Lebanon's deliberately controversial Jasad ("Body") magazine got off to a predictably controversial start. So how's the self-described breaker of "the obscurantist taboos" actually working out?
