Editorial brief · 05
Press freedom and source protection
The conditions in which journalists gather information and protect sources.
Newsroom searches, source protection in law, and legislation that affects the ability to report.
It is also the basis of how this site handles information sent to it.
Reporting
12 pieces
Press Freedom · SEP. 20, 2026
What the new Special Operations Bill could mean for press freedom
Clause 15 allows warrantless searches and the seizure of articles and documents, with no express protection for confidential journalistic sources or material.
Press Freedom · SEP. 19, 2026
The courts took six years to protect a source. The Bill would take the protection back.
International · JAN. 8, 2024
Gaza's dead journalists, and the evidence war leaves behind
Press Freedom · OCT. 3, 2023
Haiti's reporters were killed, displaced and left without a State
Press Freedom · JUN. 1, 2023
The spyware in a Dominican journalist's phone
Press Freedom · JUN. 24, 2022
Shireen Abu Akleh: the evidence pointed to the soldiers' position
Press Freedom · FEB. 11, 2022
Eighty-four deadlines, and no answer for two murdered journalists
Press Freedom · SEP. 2, 2020
Hopewell Chin'ono: arrest after reporting the contracts
Press Freedom · AUG. 28, 2020
A journalist disappeared in Thailand and surfaced in a Vietnamese prison
Press Freedom · JUN. 15, 2020
Maria Ressa and the danger of making an old article newly criminal
Press Freedom · MAY 1, 2020
Nigeria detained a publisher before the protest began
Press Freedom · JUN. 19, 2019