The Guardian
Obama orders review of press freedom guidelines in wake of recent scandals
The Guardian
Barack Obama has ordered the Department of Justice to review its guidelines on press freedom in the wake of the media outcry over the seizure of AP phone records and the threat of criminal action against a Fox reporter. Representatives of media ...
Holder says he played no role in AP phone subpoenaKXAN.com
US defends seizure of news agency recordsLegalbrief (subscription)

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South Sudan: CPJ writes South Sudan President on press freedom
Afrique en Ligue
Press freedom South Sudan - The New York-based global press freedom watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), on Thursday said it had written to South Sudan President, Salva Kiirr, to express concern over 'the deteriorating state of press ...

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Former NYT Lawyer Hammers Obama On Press Freedom
Huffington Post
Former NYT Lawyer Hammers Obama On Press Freedom. James Goodale is a First Amendment lawyer who represented the New York Times during the Pentagon Papers case. In comparison to the infamous Nixon administration, Goodale does not view the ...

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Salon
Obama will be worse than Nixon on press freedom: Former NYT lawyer
Washington Post (blog)
The search warrant filed to investigate the Fox News reporter James Rosen proved as many had suspected: President Obama wants to make it a crime for a reporter to talk to a leaker. It is a further example of how President Obama will surely pass ...
Pentagon Papers Attorney: Obama Will Surpass Nixon On Harms To Press ...TPM
Is Obama Richard Nixon?Chicago Tribune
On freedom of speech, Obama-Nixon comparisons are aptSalon
BizPac Review
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Firstpost
White House Reporters Unlikely To Stage Press Freedom Protest
Huffington Post
But it's unclear whether they will take further steps in response to what many see as an unprecedented threat to press freedom under the First Amendment. Several veteran reporters told The Huffington Post that it's unlikely the press corps would band ...
Obama's Assault on the PressThe Nation.
Editorial: Even the White House knows its media shield law won't protect ...Red Alert Politics
How Obama Killed The Press With KindnessPersonal Liberty Digest
Firstpost -New York Post -Peoria Journal Star
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RT
NY Times editorial board: Obama administration threatening press freedom
Politico (blog)
Noting past Obama administration intrustions into press freedom, including the Justice Dept.'s seizure of Associated Press phone records, the board accused the Obama administration of "a heavy tilt toward secrecy and insufficient concern about a free ...
'Press freedom eroding': DOJ slammed for search warrant against 'spying' Fox ...RT
Brit Hume: Obama, Holder contradict themselves on press freedom with Rosen ...Daily Caller
Written by Brit Hume / Published Monday, May 20, 2013 / Special ReportFox News
Newswise (press release) -New Yorker (blog) -New York Post
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Wall Street Journal
Obama Pushes to Accommodate, Not Protect, Freedom of the Press
National Journal
The broader question here is Obama's attitude toward press freedom, the First Amendment, and scrutiny of the government he leads. The answer, by the way, cannot be found in Obama's suddenly revived interest in a media-shield law. That's because the ...
CPJ board protests secret seizure of AP phone recordsCPJ Press Freedom Online
Seizure of media records shows a trust betrayedThe Olympian
U.S. grab of AP records no shock to all journalistsThe Times and Democrat
Huffington Post -Butler Eagle (subscription)
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Africa Review
Liberia: 'Double Standard On Press Freedom' - Press Union Slams President ...
AllAfrica.com
On May 3, 2013, members of the Liberian media assembled in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County to observe World Press Freedom Day, a day declared by the United Nations to remind member states about the need for a free, independent and pluralistic media.
Liberia journalists lift blackout on presidencyAfrica Review

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Red Alert Politics
Obama caught up in press freedom debate
Jamaica Observer
WASHINGTON, USA (AFP) — President Barack Obama does not want journalists prosecuted for doing their jobs, his spokesman said yesterday, amid a furor over a Fox News reporter caught up in a Justice Department leak probe. The plight of reporter James ...
Obama: Press freedom is crucialArizona Daily Star
WH Press Secy Jay Carney: Nobody has been more outraged by the IRS ...Red Alert Politics
Obama: Journalists shouldn't be prosecuted for doing their jobsPolitico (blog)
The Epoch Times -NJ.com (blog) -The Market Oracle
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MPs Tout Greater Press Freedom
AllAfrica.com
Dodoma — SEVERAL MPs have defended Tanzania's record on press freedom, saying it was not true that the concept has fallen apart in the country. The Minister of State President's Office (in charge of Social Relations and Coordination), Mr Stephen ...

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Uganda not disrupting press freedom - minister
The Star
Uganda's Minister of Information and National Guidance has said the government is not interfering with press freedom after Monday's raid on the Daily Monitor publications. The minister, Mary Okurut, said the police's action at the Nation Media Group ...

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CHIEFTAIN: Obama deals press freedom a setback
Wallowa County Cheiftain
CHIEFTAIN: Obama deals press freedom a setback. Story · Comments. Print: Create a hardcopy of this page; Font Size: Default font size: Larger font size. Posted: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 8:15 am. CHIEFTAIN: Obama deals press freedom a setback 0 ...

PRO tries to rescue 'press freedom' decree
Buenos Aires Herald
Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri's PRO party believes the emergency decree that it says is designed to defend press freedom in the City and was hit with a preliminary injunction yesterday still has a way out: the City Legislature. City Judge ...

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Salon
Is Obama Richard Nixon?
Chicago Tribune
Full disclosure: Goodale and I are on the board of directors of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, which has written a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, joining other press freedom organizations, voicing our objections to ...
On freedom of speech, Obama-Nixon comparisons are aptSalon
Empire is the cancer on our civil libertiesSocialist Worker Online
Three words why President Obama will not be impeached: President Joe BidenNJ.com (blog)

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Uganda Not Disrupting Press Freedom - Minister
AllAfrica.com
Uganda's Minister of Information and National Guidance has said the government is not interfering with press freedom after Monday's raid on the Daily Monitor publications. The minister, Mary Okurut, said the police's action at the Nation Media Group ...

Iran - Press freedom violations recounted in real time (from 1st January 2013)
Reuters AlertNet
Reporters Without Borders condemns a week-old wave of censorship targeting Iranian and international websites in the run-up to the 14 June presidential election. Websites that support various presidential candidates and online services such as Google ...

New Yorker (blog)
The Leaks Scandals: Questions for Obama
New Yorker (blog)
The issue of just how far the Obama Administration is willing to go to pursue leakers gets murkier and murkier. Two weeks ago, we learned that a federal prosecutor trying to find the source of a story about the C.I.A. and a plot in Yemen to bomb an ...
Obama's War on Journalism: 'An Unconstitutional Act'Daily Beast
Obama against prosecuting journalists for doing their jobFirstpost
Leaks turn to deluge for reeling White HouseNew York Post

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White House Reporters Unlikely To Stage Press Freedom Protest
Huffington Post
But it's unclear whether they will take further steps in response to what many see as an unprecedented threat to press freedom under the First Amendment. Several veteran reporters told The Huffington Post that it's unlikely the press corps would band ...

NewsBusters
NYT Lawyer: Obama Worse Than Nixon, 'Worst President Ever' on Press Freedom
NewsBusters (blog)
“It is a further example of how President Obama will surely pass President Richard Nixon as the worst president ever on issues of national security and press freedom,” he wrote. Until President Obama came into office, no one thought talking or emailing ...
Pentagon Papers Attorney: Obama Will Surpass Nixon On Harms To Press ...TPM
Former NYT Lawyer Hammers Obama On Press FreedomHuffington Post (blog)
Liberals now eating their own, beginning with Obama and HolderBizPac Review

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