Feder will oversee RCFP’s growing program to provide free legal support to local journalists and newsrooms, which is now ...

KUSA-9 News sued the police department for access to unedited bodycam videos with free legal support from an RCFP attorney.

T]he right and ability of the press to document law enforcement ... activity safely and effectively is foundational to ...

Closing courtroom doors to a journalist attending a public immigration proceeding is unlawful and damaging to public transparency.” ...

The Reporters Committee regularly submits amicus, or “friend-of-the-court,” briefs in state, federal, and U.S. Supreme Court cases where the news media brings an important perspective. Known for ...

Background: In April 2025, Ashlynd Huffman, a reporter for The Frontier, submitted an open records request to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections seeking reports on the death of an inmate and other ...

The settlement comes after Spotlight PA filed an open meetings lawsuit against Penn State’s governing body with free legal support from RCFP attorneys.

Today, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press announced the recipients of the 2025 Freedom of the Press Awards, hosted this year by Judy Woodruff, senior correspondent and the former anchor ...

If you like this post, sign up to get The Nuance newsletter delivered straight to your inbox every month! Headlines abound about the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown against students ...

Background: In 2017, the Los Angeles Times published an investigation by Maya Lau and two of her colleagues uncovering a list of hundreds of Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies with histories of ...

Memphis Area Transit Authority executives spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on travel, hotels, and dinners while the agency battled financial issues that culminated in the announcement ...

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva speaks during a news conference, Tuesday, April 26, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) On Tuesday, attorneys for investigative ...