Press Freedom
Press Freedom Advocates Seek Asylum for Mexican Journalist
December 5, 2017
For the second time this year, U.S. immigration policy is putting a Mexican journalist’s life at risk. Unless the Board of Immigration Appeals overturns a July 19 decision by El Paso Immigration Judge Robert Hough, Emilio Gutierrez Soto will be deported to Mexico, a country he fled nearly a decade…
Read MoreJournalism advocates deplore attempt to deport Press Freedom Award winner
November 18, 2017
The National Press Club, its Journalism Institute and other advocates for press freedom and immigration justice urge U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to suspend efforts to deport Emilio Gutierrez, a winner of the Club’s Press Freedom Award. Late on Friday, an immigration judge in El Paso,…
Read MoreNational Press Club Joins Letter to FCC After Trump Threats
October 16, 2017
The National Press Club and the NPC Journalism Institute have joined with other news groups in urging the Federal Communications Commission to defend the First Amendment against presidential pressure. President Donald Trump last week suggested that the broadcast licenses of news organizations…
Read MoreWho are the enemies of the press? Netflix documentary explores threats to press freedom from billionaires, Oct. 19
October 15, 2017
The First Amendment protects the press against government censorship, but could the biggest threat to press freedom come from private, monied interests? That's the question posed by "Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press," a provocative documentary by director Brian Knappenberger that Netflix is…
Read MoreNational Press Club, NPC Journalism Institute stand with Mexico’s journalists
August 25, 2017
The National Press Club and its nonprofit Journalism Institute join our colleagues around the globe in mourning the death of Candido Rios Vazquez, a Mexican journalist who reported extensively on corruption in his country. The 57-year-old, who was in a government program to protect journalists…
Read MorePress Freedom Award honors White House and Mexican reporters
August 16, 2017
The White House Correspondents’ Association and the press corps of Mexico are the winners of the National Press Club's 2017 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award. Each year, the Club honors two recipients of the award, one domestic and one foreign, for demonstrating through their work the principles of…
Read MoreClub Institute and media lawyers launch tracker for denials of media access to governments
August 11, 2017
The National Press Club Journalism Institute and the Media Law Resource Center have launched an effort to monitor day-to-day impediments facing journalists covering federal, state and local government. The Institute has created a simple online form that anyone can fill out any time a public…
Read MoreNational Press Club, Journalism Institute deplore Saudi attempts to muzzle free press
June 23, 2017
On Thursday, the Associated Press reported that Saudi Arabia is making the shutdown of the global news service al Jazeera a condition for lifting a trade and economic embargo that the Saudis and their allies have imposed on Qatar. Al Jazeera is headquartered in Qatar. We urge the U.S. State…
Read MoreNational Press Club, Journalism Institute say 'No' to Senate press gatekeeper
June 13, 2017
The following statement was released yesterday by the National Press Club and its Journalism Institute: Of all the assaults on press freedom we have experienced this year one of the most disheartening is the one that happened today in the place we least expected it. The U.S. Capitol is the People’s…
Read MoreAn open letter to FCC Chair Ajit Pai
June 7, 2017
The National Press Club and its Journalism Institute today sent the following letter to Federal Communication Commission Chair Ajit V. Pai as an invitation — and a response to the letter he has sent members of the U.S. Senate regarding the May 18th incident at the FCC:
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