Winter 2018 Issue

Journalists under threat in 2017

Trump so far has failed to follow through on his promised press assault. Could it still come?

It’s been an exhausting news cycle, for readers as well as those of us in the business

How the non-disclosure agreement became a tool for powerful people to stymie journalists from informing the public

The work of a journalist is to be accessible, discerning, and persistent.
For a woman, this also makes her a target.

The American media landscape, like the rest of the country, is being reshaped by the whims of the ultra-rich

When an online news outlet goes out of business, its archives can disappear as well. The new battle over journalism’s digital legacy.

What the assassination of a Bangalore journalist says about media complacency in the face of Hindu nationalism’s violent rise in India

Behind the camera, there often isn’t a place to hide.

Donald Trump isn’t the only existential threat facing journalism

Race remains a no-go topic for much of the media—which will have serious consequences for the press

The world’s authoritarians are watching the attacks on the press in the US—transforming the role of journalism and of reality itself

The social network’s increasing threat to journalism

Newspaper carriers are being assaulted and killed across the country

When fake news and bots took over our lives

A catalog of press threats in the US reflects a long, violent history

At the beginning of last year, the US Press Freedom Tracker started cataloguing every violation of press freedom that took place on American soil, be it through violence, arrest, denial of access, or other threats. This is a selection of those incidents from 2017.