Article in Axios by Sara Fisher and Kerry Flynn, 11/25/25
Headline: “Trump’s media lawsuits keep falling flat”
“Despite two very visible settlements with ABC and CBS in the past year, President Trump’s legal pressure on media companies has still faced ample pushback in court.
“Why it matters: Lawsuits, even if eventually dismissed are extremely costly and burdensome for news organizations to fight. . .”
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https://www.axios.com/2025/11/25/trump-media-lawsuits-dismissed
Article in Mediaite by Sarah Rumpf, 11/24/25
Headline: “Judge Throws Out Truth Social’s Defamation Lawsuit Against The Guardian“
“A Florida judge granted motions to dismiss to The Guardian and other defendants in a defamation lawsuit filed by Truth Social’s parent company, Truth Media & Technology Group Corp. (TMTG), the latest example of President Donald Trump’s legal actions against media companies not holding up in court.
The dispute arose from two articles published by the UK-based Guardian in March 2023 ‘reporting on a federal criminal investigation related to TMTGs receipt of two payments totaling $8 million,’ . . .”
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Article in Reporters Without Borders by Staff, 11/18/25
Headline: “USA: 8 ways Trump is shrinking the space for press freedom – literally”
“The attacks against the press carried out by President Donald Trump since the start of his second term have increasingly stretched beyond rhetoric and policy and turned into physical limitations for journalists. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is highlighting eight ways the US administration is physically restricting journalists’ access to areas where they were previously free to report. . .”
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https://rsf.org/en/usa-8-ways-trump-shrinking-space-press-freedom-literally
Article in Mediaite by Sean James, 11/19/25
Headline: ” ‘They Will Win!’ Dan Abrams Urges Media Orgs To Fight Trump on ‘Meritless’ Lawsuits After CNN’s Court Victory”
“Dan Abrams urged media companies on Wednesday to punch back against President Donald Trump whenever he files a “ridiculous” lawsuit against them, because, as CNN just showed in court, “they will win!”
Abrams made his plea to outlets one day after a U.S. appeals court upheld the dismissal of a Trump lawsuit against CNN. The president sued the cable channel in 2022 for $475 million after several of its reporters referred to his claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged as ‘The Big Lie.’. . .”
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Article in The Hill by Dominick Mastrangelo, 11/18/25
Headline: “Trump threatens ABC News broadcast license after reporter asks about Epstein “
“President Trump attacked an ABC News reporter Tuesday after she asked about the Epstein files, threatening to have the network taken off the air for questioning him about the controversy. . .”
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https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5611057-president-trump-threatens-abc/
Article in The Guardian by Michael Savage, 11/12/25
Headline: “BBC prepared to apologise to Trump to resolve billion-dollar legal threat”
Subhead: “The US president has threatened the BBC with a lawsuit over the editing of a Trump speech in an edition of Panorama”
“The BBC is prepared to formally apologise to Donald Trump as part of its efforts to resolve his billion-dollar legal threat over its editing of one of his speeches, the Guardian understands. . . ”
“The BBC’s leadership is facing a looming deadline over how to reply to Trump’s legal threat, filed in a Florida court on Wednesday according to the White House. It follows the editing of a Trump speech in an edition of Panorama, which was a significant factor in the resignation of director general Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, its head of news. . .”
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Article in AP by David Bader 11/11/25
Headline: “In Trump-dominated media world, editing video takes on new significance — as BBC uproar shows”
“In the space of a few months, one of the more straightforward journalistic tasks — editing tape for broadcast — has been behind a $16 million legal settlement, a network’s change in how it offers interviews on a news show and, now, the resignation of two top leaders at the BBC.
“The other common denominator: President Donald Trump.
“Britain’s BBC is reeling this week following the resignations of its director-general, Tim Davie, and news chief Deborah Turness amid accusations of bias in the editing of last year’s documentary, ‘Trump: A Second Chance.’ . . .”
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Article in AP by John D. Hanna and Heatber Hollingsworth, 11/11/25
Headline: “Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million over law enforcement raid on a small-town newspaper”
“TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A rural Kansas county has agreed to pay a little more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked an outcry over press freedom, the paper’s editor said Tuesday.
Marion County was among multiple defendants in five federal lawsuits filed by the company that publishes the Marion County Record, its publisher, the estate of his late mother Joan Meyer, the paper’s co-owner, employees of the paper and a former Marion City Council member whose home also was raided. . .”
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https://apnews.com/article/kansas-newspaper-raid-press-freedom-c18f46a215908198335ca6f608c3360b
Article in The New Republic by Greg Sargent, 11/10/25
Headline: “Angry Trump Snaps at Media as Brutal New Data Shows Size of GOP Losses”
Subhead: “As Trump seethes at journalists amid the release of striking new analyses of the election, a reporter who covers Congress details how Republicans are barred from acknowledging Trump’s unpopularity—a dangerous place to be. Donald Trump vehemently talks to media”
“Under questioning from reporters about last week’s GOP losses, President Trump seethed that worsening inflation on his watch—a driver of the outcome—is nothing but a Democratic ‘con.’ . . Then, when a reporter raised facts contradicting him, he snapped in anger, because only the despot says what reality is. . . .”
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Article in Poynter by Michelle Zenarosa, 11/6/25
Headline: “When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent”
Subhead: “Five months of covering ICE raids taught our small LA newsroom hard lessons — and we’re still figuring out how to sustain it”
“When federal immigration operations began sweeping across Los Angeles in June, our newsroom worked around the clock. I didn’t have to tell them to. No one wanted to stop.
“One reporter’s family members were being followed. Another staffer’s family went into hiding — despite having legal status. Sources we’d cultivated for years suddenly wouldn’t answer calls. At LA Public Press, a 14-person nonprofit newsroom led by and largely staffed by people of color who grew up in the neighborhoods we cover, everyone on staff was personally touched by the raids in some way. We weren’t covering some abstract story happening to other people. We were covering home. . .”
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https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/la-public-press-journalists-covering-ice-raids-safety/
Article in The guardian by Betsy Reed, 11/6/25
Headline: “In his first term, Donald Trump called journalists the enemy. This time around, he’s treating us like one”
“From Hungary to Russia, authoritarian regimes have made silencing independent media one of their defining moves. Sometimes outright censorship isn’t even required to achieve this goal. In the United States, we have seen the administration apply various forms of pressure on news outlets in the year since Trump’s election. One of my great disappointments is how quickly some of the most storied US media organizations have folded . . .”
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/05/trump-journalists-enemy