Category: Free Press

CHINESE JOURNALIST GETS 15 YEARS

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 ...

THIS WEEK IN LITIGATION

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, ...

…AND NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON

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 ANCHOR SPEAKS OVER FIRING

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 ...

STATE-CONTROLLED PRESS ACCESS

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 ...

Shhh.

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, ...

HEY YOU

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, ...

BUT HIS EMAILS….

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 ...

TO USE OR NOT TO USE…

..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 ...

Pssst. HEY YOU..

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, ...

FORMER FOX ANCHOR BREAKS SILENCE

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 ...

NO MORE PRESS BRIEFINGS

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 ...

IT STARTED WITH A TV REPORT

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 ...

NEWSPAPERS VS SOCIAL MEDIA

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, ...

PSST, HEY YOU, YEAH YOU

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 ...

HMMM..

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 ...

MADDOW NEW BOOK

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 ...

ACOSTA TWITTER BATTLE

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 ...

PUBLICLY FUNDED NEWS?

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 ...

A CASE OF LEGAL OVERREACH

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 ...

HERE COMES THE FUZZ

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 ...

REAL-TIME FACT-CHECKING. IS THAT OK?

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 ...

IT’S DANGEROUS OUT THERE

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 ...

SAY WHAT?

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 ...

THE BONEHEADS AMONG US

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 ...

KHASHOGGI’S LAST POST COLUMN

“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 ...

PROTECT THE FIRST AMENDMENT

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 ...