An RCFP attorney is representing journalist Henry Bard in his fight for records under Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know Law.

Randy L. Shapiro has been Global Newsroom Counsel to Bloomberg News since August 2013. She is the senior newsroom lawyer to more than 2,500 journalists around the globe. Prior to joining Bloomberg, ...

Jeffrey Goldberg is the editor in chief of The Atlantic and the moderator of Washington Week With The Atlantic. He joined The Atlantic in 2007 as a national correspondent and in 2016 was named the ...

The Wall Street Journal and other news outlets have recently received subpoenas as part of federal leak investigations.

Background: On Jan. 14, 2026, the FBI executed a search warrant at the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson as part of an investigation into a government contractor charged with illegally ...

Background: In June 2022, Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to recruit and groom girls that the disgraced financier abused.

An attorney for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is representing the editor of the West Baton Rouge Independent, a small news outlet in Louisiana, to help the journalist fend off a ...

Background: The West Baton Rouge Independent is a small news outlet in Louisiana. John Summers is the publisher, editor, and sole reporter for the outlet, which he started in May 2025. In March 2026, ...

Background: In June 2025, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press submitted Freedom of Information Act requests to the U.S. Department of the Army and U.S. Northern Command seeking records ...

On behalf of Jigsaw Productions, RCFP attorneys successfully argued that the disclosure of the video would not harm Musk’s privacy. Elon Musk arrives to speak at the Conservative Political Action ...

A federal judge ruled on Friday that the Pentagon’s media access policy violated the Constitution, concluding in part that it was intended “to weed out disfavored journalists” and replace them with ...

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s efforts to shutter Voice of America are unlawful, ordering the government to restore operations at the congressionally funded international ...