Article in Reuters by Krisztina Than, 4/13/26
Headline: “Hungary’s election winner Magyar says to suspend state media news broadcast”
” Hungary’s election winner Peter Magyar said on Monday that his government will suspend the news broadcast of public state media until unbiased news coverage can be ensured.
“Magyar’s Tisza party scored a landslide victory in Sunday’s elections. . .”
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Article in FAIR by Janine Jackson, 4/10/26
Headline: ” ‘Local News Is a Genuine Public Good We Need for Our Democracy’ “
Subhead: “CounterSpin interview with Alex Frandsen on Local News Day”
“Janine Jackson: News media can be like the old joke about the weather: Everybody complains, but nobody does anything. But as we’ve seen billionaire owners turning news into yet another profit-driven enterprise—not, to be clear, entities that need to sustain themselves, but that need to generate ever-higher quarterly profits for shareholders—the truth is there has been plenty of, not just protest and criticism, but ground-level organizing to find other ways to support the work we need from journalism in the public interest. . .”
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https://fair.org/home/local-news-is-a-genuine-public-good-we-need-for-our-democracy/
Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Susie Banikarim, 4/10/26
Headline: “Tony Gonzales and the Patient Work of Local News”
Subhead: “Impactful reporting from the San Antonio Express-News; Fargo columnists fed to the wood chipper; profiling the Big Beautiful Bill’s ugliness.”
“In February, the San Antonio Express-News broke a story that quickly became national news: Tony Gonzales, a Republican congressman from Texas, had an affair with Regina Santos-Aviles, an aide who died by suicide after setting herself on fire. The fallout was significant. Gonzales initially denied the relationship. Last month, he admitted to it and dropped his reelection bid. . .”
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https://www.cjr.org/laurels-and-darts/tony-gonzales-and-the-patient-work-of-local-news.php
Article in The Guardian by Jefemy Barr, 4/9/26
Headline: “US judge rules Pentagon has violated his order in press access case”
Subhead: “Paul Friedman grants New York Times’s motion to force implementation of earlier ruling that gutted restrictive new policy”
“A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the Pentagon has not complied with an order last month that undid much of a restrictive new press pass policy implemented by the Department of Defense, and ordered the return of credentials to seven New York Times reporters.
The newspaper, which sued the Trump administration in December, had urged the judge to compel implementation of his 20 March ruling after the Pentagon responded to the judge’s determination by creating a new press access policy, which the newspaper called an ‘end-run’ around the judge’s ruling. . .”
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr/09/pentagon-judge-press-access-case
Article in AP by Jonathan Landrum Jr., 4/9/26
Headline: “Dave Chappelle helps keep Ohio radio station rooted in hometown with restored building”
“YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (AP) — Comedian Dave Chappelle stood on the front lawn of a newly restored 19th-century schoolhouse Thursday, joining neighbors and local officials as a small-town radio station secured its future in the community he calls home.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony marked two historic moments: Chappelle’s restoration of the Union Schoolhouse and WYSO’s relocation of its new broadcast facility inside it, bringing together distinct efforts to keep the station rooted in Yellow Springs at a time when local media outlets face mounting challenges. . .”
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https://apnews.com/article/dave-chappelle-radio-station-1297aeb70e20d61e5a46481f0b660332
Article in Mediaite by Sarah Rumpf, 4/6/26
Headline: “NYT Fires Back After Trump Berates Reporter: ‘Pattern of Answering Fair Questions with Inaccurate Attacks’ “
“The New York Times fired back at President Donald Trump after he berated one of their reporters during a press conference on Monday, calling it part of a “pattern of answering fair questions with inaccurate attacks.”
The incident in question occurred during a press briefing the president held to discuss the latest developments in Iran. Times Zolan Kanno-Youngs asked Trump about a Truth Social post he wrote early on Easter Sunday morning with a profanity-laced demand for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, threatening to strike Iran’s bridges and power plants if the strait stayed closed. . .”
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Article in The Guardian by Jeremy Barr, 4/6/26
Headline: “Trump threatens to jail journalist to find source of second missing airman report”
Subhead: “Trump targets media to find ‘leaker’ who revealed that a US airman was missing after being shot down by Iranian forces”
“Donald Trump threatened to jail a journalist – or journalists – who reported that a second US airman was missing after being shot down by Iran on Friday in an effort to identify their source. . .”
“During a press conference at the White House on Monday afternoon, Trump told reporters that his government was aggressively pursuing the “leaker” who revealed information about the missing airman to the media. He claimed that the news report put Iran on notice and put the airman in danger. . .”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/06/trump-threats-journalist-missing-airman-iran
Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Ivan L. Nagy, 4/2/26
Headline: “Pushed Out. Reinstated. Pushed Out Again.”
Subhead: “Last week, New York Times reporters were supposed to return to the Pentagon’s corridors. Instead, the entire press corps was banished to an annex, and the Times is back in court.”
“Ordered to let journalists back in, the Pentagon instead banished them to an annex on the far side of its parking lot. A Pentagon reporter called that ‘an elaborate troll.’ Another told me it was ‘a bullshit move.’ ‘How weird is that?’ Paul Friedman, a United States District judge, remarked at a hearing on Monday. ‘Is it Catch-22? Is it Kafka?’. . .”
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Article in The Guardian by Jer3emy Barr, 3/24/26
Headline: “New York Times accuses Pentagon of defying judge’s press access order”
Subhead: “DoD announces ‘interim’ policy for journalists decried by newspaper as ‘end-run around the court’s ruling’ “
“The New York Times on Tuesday accused the Pentagon of disobeying a judge’s ruling that undid much of the restrictive agreement journalists were forced to sign or lose access to the building.
The judge, Paul Friedman, granted an injunction on Friday that overturned much of the language in the ‘media in-brief’ document that had so concerned many news organizations that cover the Pentagon that almost all journalists chose instead to give back their press badges. He also ordered that seven journalists from the Times be returned their badges.
Instead of complying with the judge’s order, the Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell announced on Monday night that the department would permanently close a designated work space for journalists known as ‘correspondents’ corridor’ and create a ‘new and improved press workspace’ in an annexed facility outside the building. . .”
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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/24/pentagon-correspondents-press-restrictions
Article in Reporters Without Frontiers by Staff, 3/23/26
Headline: “USA: RSF and allies file second lawsuit to save public broadcaster VOA“
“Following courtroom victories in a first legal case to save Voice of America (VOA), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has joined a second lawsuit against the Trump administration to protect the international public broadcaster’s journalism. RSF’s first lawsuit established that the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle VOA and its parent organization, the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), was illegal. This second case intends to protect VOA’s legally mandated editorial independence and prevent Trump from turning it into a propaganda outlet. . .”
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https://rsf.org/en/usa-rsf-and-allies-file-second-lawsuit-save-public-broadcaster-voa