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January 11-17
State Department removes accredited journalists from press briefing; Last chance for Biden to pardon Assange; Israel and Hamas agree on ceasefire; RSF calls for journalists access and an end to impunity for Israel’s war crimes; Israel blocks medical evacuation of Al Jazeera cameraman; Incarcerated journalist in Texas prison struggles under ever-harsher conditions
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January 4-10
British judge orders prosecutors to come clean on Assange case; Gaza journalists demand end to Israel’s impunity; Article 19 calls on Israel to stop targeting press; Israel kills writer and journalists Mohammad Hijazi and cameraman Saed Abu Nabhan; Journalist Richard Medhurst faces years in prison for refusing to hand over passwords to UK police
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December 28, 2024 – January 3, 2025
Israel kills another journalist in Gaza; The Palestinian Authority suspends broadcast of Al Jazeera in the West Bank; Reporter attacked as hostility to journalists rises in the U.S.
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December 21-27, 2024
Israel kills five journalists in one attack in Gaza; Israel threatens Al Jazeera correspondent
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December 14-20, 2024
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Journalist arrests surge in 2024; Israel kills three Palestinian journalists in 24 hours; Two Kurdish journalists killed in a reportedly Turkish drone attack; Jesselyn Radack writes about the continued dangers for press freedom posed by the Espionage Act
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December 7-13, 2024
IFJ calls 2024 a “particularly deadly” year for journalists; The PRESS Act fails to pass the Senate on unanimous consent; RSF’s 2024 Round-up: journalism suffers exorbitant human cost; Alleged CIA leaker ordered to stay in jail pending trail; RCFP: DOJ’s subpoenas for journalists’ records raise First Amendment concerns
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Senate fails to pass PRESS Act
The Protect Reporters from Exploitive State Spying Act would protect journalists against government surveillance and the forced disclosure of their confidential sources
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VIDEO: Gabriel Shipton on MSNBC, says Biden should pardon Assange to protect press freedom
Assange’s brother speaks to Ayman about what a pardon would mean for Julian personally and for press freedom more broadly
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November 30 – December 6
12 Senators write to Sec. Blinken: “prioritize journalists’ immediate access to Gaza”, Trump advisers renew push for pardon of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Israel attacks journalists in Lebanon hours after ceasefire begins
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Matt DeHart
Matt DeHart is a former U.S. Air National Guard intelligence analyst who was prosecuted for allegedly running a data server which hosted files destined for WikiLeaks and allegedly dealing with the FBI investigating the CIA’s potential role in the anthrax attacks of 2001. DeHart was tortured during interrogation at the U.S.-Canada border and ultimately arrested,…