A former Chinese state media journalist, turned anti-corruption blogger, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in China according to CNN. Chen Jieren was detained in mid-2018 after he published articles on his blog claiming ...
A federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump must face claims that he violated the First Amendment by revoking or threatening to revoke some journalists’ press credentials and national security clearances. PEN America, ...
Add CNN to the list of news organizations being sued by the Trump campaign. This latest lawsuit claims that a June 13, 2019 CNN.com opinion piece from Larry Noble is defamatory, because it claims ...
It’s a long way from a $450 million glass-and-steel monument on Pennsylvania Avenue to a one-bedroom hotel suite on K Street. That is one place you will find what remains of the hugely-hyped, never ...
A selfie by any other name, well is a selfie. Chris Best, News Director at WKRG (CBS) and overall nice guy landed on the front page of a local paper, taking a selfie. I ...
We can already see the disinformation campaigns infesting social media and even spreading into some less diligent mainstream outlets this this red-hot election year. So Graham Media, and Berkshire Hathaway’s WPLG in Miami are ...
Former TV anchor and reporter Rafer Weigel said Wednesday he was wrongfully fired from his job at WFLD (FOX) because he was caught up in a legal battle involving two ex-girlfriends and allegations of revenge porn. Weigel’s ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a man who has repeatedly said his every action is informed by the Bible, is evidently still smarting from his recent interview with NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly. This ...
It starts tomorrow folks. And the public’s right to know is being seriously infringed upon, once more, in the hallowed, and freely abused, name of “security.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is taking extraordinary ...
From the beginning, NewsBlues has had an anonymous tipline. It’s untraceable and, if you’ve got a story, it’s a way to get the word out. You’ll find it over on the right hand column, ...
From the beginning, NewsBlues has had an anonymous tipline. It’s untraceable and, if you’ve got a story, it’s a way to get the word out. You’ll find it over on the right hand column, ...
Nexstar’s WITI in Milwaukee is suing the Wisconsin Governor for withholding copies of his emails. The lawsuit prompted Governor Tony Evers to partially just minutes after the papers were filed in court. The lawsuit ...
..is the question when it comes to dealing with undercover cameras. To help make the answer a bit easier, RTDNA has come out with some guidelines you may want to remember. Guidelines for Hidden ...
From the beginning, NewsBlues has had an anonymous tipline. It’s untraceable and, if you’ve got a story, it’s a way to get the word out. You’ll find it over on the right hand column, ...
Jeremy Jojola, an investigative reporter for the past eight and a half years at Tegna’s KUSA in Denver, is accustomed to stirring the pot with the targets of his reports, and stirring the passions ...
We once shared Shep Smith‘s opinion….and the opinion of many…that the internet revolution would make us all smarter and bring us all together. Boy, were we wrong. “Intimidation and vilification of the press is ...
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham says that she has no plans to resume daily briefings, saying they were canceled because they had become “a lot of theater.” Grisham made the comment Monday during ...
The Vermont State Supreme Court ruled that the public has a right to records in an earlier case in which Gray Television’s argued successfully that its WCAX in Burlington should not be forced to ...
We continue to learn more about the recent massive breach of the First Amendment out in San Francisco, where, on May 10, police raided the home and newsroom of San Francisco freelance journalist Bryan ...
The struggling print news industry is joining calls to increase oversight of tech giants like Facebook and Google, urging policymakers to also take into account how Silicon Valley has upended the business of journalism, ...
Sometimes news is right under your nose. And when it hits you, you might want to spread the word. That’s why, from the beginning, NewsBlues has had an anonymous tipline. It’s untraceable and, if ...
In Oregon, a Multnomah County jury acquitted a 33-year-old woman of charges that she assaulted a TV news cameraman during a protest last summer outside the Southwest Portland offices of U.S. Immigration and Customs ...
Rachel Maddow has a new book on the way, due out in October 2019. It’s titled “Blowout: Corrupted democracy, rogue state Russia, and the richest, most destructive industry on Earth.” Maddow mentioned it to viewers ...
This will probably qualify as the least surprising news of the day. Last week , President Donald Trump was speaking to the media about the immigration crisis and the topic of asylum seekers came ...
It’s time to add another local news experiment to test-tube Colorado where some folks in Longmont are proposing some sort of local news operation that taxpayers would support. It would be through a city library district ...
The repercussions continues from that San Francisco police raid on the home of a freelance reporter we reported to you yesterday. The Radio Television Digital News Association and its Voice of the First Amendment ...
In San Francisco California, Police raided the home and office of a freelance journalist Friday morning as part of an ongoing probe into a leaked confidential police report containing details about the death of ...
While MSNBC was delivering live coverage of Attorney General William Barr’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, it broke in several times to do some fact-checking. Even anchor Brian Williams admitted it ...
In 2018, the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker reported 42 journalists were physically attacked and five were killed simply for working to keep their communities informed. That kind of news has prompted RTDNA to intensify ...
This Thursday, the Committee to Protect Journalists will host an “outside the White House” press conference to demand justice for murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. That is an action that one time would have ...
You can’t even call this a dubious honor. It’s a disgrace. A tragedy. A horror. An insult to everything this country is supposed to stand for. But there it is. The United States, for ...
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler‘s communications staff asked a select group of reporters to sign non-disclosure agreements to gain access to the Portland Police Bureau’s command staff during a right-wing protest on Nov. 17. An ...
It’s on. Let the billable hours mount up. CNN says it tried to broker a peace through Chief of Staff John Kelly in order to get correspondent Jim Acosta his White House press credentials ...
We think street reporters, especially those out on live shots, today need some hazard pay. We’re thinking of Rob Nelson, of Disney’s WABC, who was doing a live shot last week when a woman ...
“The Washington Post,” Jamal Khashoggi’s primary US outlet, printed the slain journalist’s last column Thursday. It was received by his editor the day after Khashoggi disappeared. Its title: “What the Arab world needs most ...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF), RTDNA and 20 other organizations are teaming up to launch the #DefendPressFreedom campaign which is aimed at encouraging voters to ask their congressional candidates in the United States midterm elections ...
We’re glad someone is asking the question. If former White House staffers are bound to silence because of their non-disclosure agreements, what the hell use are they as cable news talking heads? Omarosa being ...
As more than 100 newspapers across the country ready the editorials for their Thursday, August 16th editions, RTDNA is asking its members to join in the pushback against the increasingly unhinged “fake news” of ...