A free press is a cornerstone of American democracy. It informs citizens, holds leaders to account and upholds democratic principles. But after decades of relative freedom, the U.S. press now faces a ...

World Press Freedom Day, observed on May 3, honors this UN universal human right. Printed in this newspaper's Opinion pages is “The First Amendment” spelling out the basic freedoms enshrined in the ...

The global press corps must stop looking at Gaza as someone else’s crisis—and start demanding justice. When I learned I’d been selected for a journalism award earlier this year, I felt humbled and ...

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple,” wrote Oscar Wilde. That observation holds true for press freedom on both sides of the Atlantic. The US mythologises its First Amendment as near-sacred, ...

The Freedom of the Press Foundation has filed a disciplinary complaint letter against Brendan Carr, accusing the Federal Communications Commission chair of violating legal ethics rules in what the ...

One way to evaluate how people around the world feel about free speech, free press, and internet use without state or government censorship is to compare views of how important these freedoms are with ...

Global press freedom across the world is at a “critical moment,” campaigners have warned, as a major index mapping the state of global press freedom hits an unprecedented low. In the latest edition of ...