Article in Media Matters by Staff , 9/5/25
Headline: “Right-wing media’s campaign for military intervention and regime change in Venezuela”
Subhead: “Conservative pundits have spent August and September beating the drums of war”
“Right-wing media outlets have spent August and September agitating for the Trump administration to take military action against Venezuela, including possibly toppling the government of President Nicolas Maduro. . .”
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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Paulina Milewska & Ksenia Mironova, 9/3/25
Headline: “How to Survive the (Media) Apocalypse”
Subhead: “Lessons from journalists who have lived through all this”
“The ongoing deterioration of press freedom and independence in the United States is deeply concerning to many journalists who don’t know where their country is heading. That chilling uncertainty is one we have lived through ourselves. We are journalists from Russia and Poland. Ksenia has been forced to leave her home in order to continue working, and has watched countless friends and colleagues do the same. . .”
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https://www.cjr.org/analysis/russia-poland-media-exile-strategies.php
Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Josh Hersh, 8/28/25
Headline: “Hind Hassan Is Sorry We Didn’t Do More to Make Journalism Safe”
Subhead: “ ‘We’re responsible for what our industry stands for,’ the documentary news reporter says.”
“Earlier this month, Hind Hassan, a decorated documentary news reporter who has covered everything from conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon, and Ukraine to the bizarre underworld of the global wellness industry, spoke at a graduation ceremony for students at Columbia Journalism School. . .”
“ ‘We’re responsible for what our industry stands for,’ she said. ‘I think it is the responsibility of the industry, of those who have the power, of heads of news organizations, to defend journalists when they come under attack, no matter where they are.’ . . .”
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https://www.cjr.org/kicker/hind-hassan-gaza-journalism-safety.php
Article in Daily Beast by Farrah Tomazin, 8/28/25
Headline: “Trump Reveals Sinister New Plot for Curbing the Media”
Subhead: “The administration says the changes would prevent the likelihood of ‘visa abuse.’ “
“President Donald Trump has moved to curb the number of foreign journalists who can work in America by significantly reducing the time they can stay in the country.
“After embarking on a mass deportation plan to get rid of illegal immigrants, the administration has now set its sights on legal immigration, with a dramatic shakeup of visas for members of the media, as well as students and cultural exchange visitors. . .”
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-reveals-sinister-new-plan-for-curbing-the-media/
Article in FAIR by Staff, 8/27/25
Headline: “On the Ethics of Embedding With Génocidaires”
“On Sunday, August 10, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a dramatic announcement: After 674 days of barring foreign media from Gaza, Israel was planning to begin staging guided tours, under Israeli military control, for embedded members of the foreign press. . .”
“Just seven hours later, Israel assassinated the beloved, world-renowned Palestinian Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif, along with five other journalists, in a targeted airstrike as they sheltered in a tent for members of the press just outside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. . .”
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https://fair.org/home/on-the-ethics-of-embedding-with-genocidaires/
Article in Media Matters by Jason Campbell, 8/25/25
Headline: “As mass deportation intensifies, right-wing media expand their aim to include American citizens”
Subhead: “MAGA volk: Right-wing media personalities are expanding their hostility toward undocumented immigrants and now are targeting naturalized and native-born citizens in an assault on American identity”
“Since its inception, the MAGA movement has focused energy on trying to purge the United States of people who do not have legal status in the country. The Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts accelerated this summer after passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill, alongside the opening of new migrant detention centers. Now, MAGA media are extending that hostility toward immigrants to take aim at naturalized and native-born citizens in an assault on American identity itself. . .”
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Article in On the Media by NPR. 8/22/25
Headline: “The Power of Shortwave Radio. And, What Gets Lost with Voice of America?“
“This month, the director of Voice of America is being forced out in the latest of many moves to dismantle the state broadcasting service. On this week’s On the Media, a history of the Voice of America, and how it’s been politicized. Plus, hear why propagandists in Russia, China, and Iran are celebrating cuts to U.S.-funded foreign reporting. . .”
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Article in The Guardian by Lorenzo Tondo, 8/17/25
Headline: “Israeli media ‘completely ignored’ Gaza starvation – is that finally changing?”
Subhead: “A growing focus on hunger in Gaza in the global media has led some Israeli outlets to report on it for the first time”
“. . .more than three-quarters of Jewish Israelis – 79% – said they were either ‘not very troubled’ or ‘not troubled at all’ by reports of famine and suffering among Gaza’s Palestinian population.
“According to Anat Saragusti, an expert on the media, the reason is simple: most people in Israel are unaware of those reports because for months they have never seen them.
“ ‘Until a couple of weeks ago, you could count only a handful of reports from Gaza not filtered by the IDF,’ said Saragusti, the head of freedom of the press at the Union of Journalists in Israel. . .”
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Article in The Guardian by Mohamad Bazzi, 8/16/25
Headline: “Western journalists are failing to stand up for their colleagues in Gaza”
Subhead: “This hypocrisy of western media has been laid bare by Israel’s targeting of journalists since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack”
“For nearly two years, Israel has been systemically targeting and killing Palestinian journalists in Gaza. On Sunday night, the Israeli military brazenly killed another six journalists, who had been sheltering in a tent housing media workers in Gaza City. . .”
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/16/israel-gaza-war-journalists
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Article in Free Press by Staff, 8/14/25
Headline: “Press-Freedom Groups Call on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to Immediately Release Journalist Mario Guevara from Prolonged ICE Detention”
Subhead: “In a powerful letter to Noem, groups including the Committee to Protect Journalists, Free Press, PEN America and Reporters Without Borders mark two months since Guevara’s unjust arrest. ”
“. . .The letter — signed by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Free Press, the Atlanta Press Club, Common Cause Georgia, First Amendment Coalition, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Georgia First Amendment Foundation, Georgia Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, PEN America, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Society of Professional Journalists — expresses the groups’ alarm that Guevara has remained in detention for two months despite the fact that he is not facing any charges and was legally in the United States at the time of his arrest. . .”
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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by David C. Adams, 8/12/25
Headline: “The Cuban Journalist Trapped in America’s Immigration Blockade”
Subhead: “José Luis Tan Estrada has been stuck in Mexico since May, locked in asylum purgatory.”
“In 2024, a new ‘Social Communication Law’ declared that all social media outlets are ‘socialist property’ and ‘cannot be subject to any other type of ownership,’ effectively banning independent media. . .”
“At one point, a Cuban asylum seeker might have been welcome on American shores, but Tan Estrada’s journey has been one of extreme peril, made worse by the Trump administration’s blockade on nearly all political asylum or humanitarian cases. . .”
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https://www.cjr.org/analysis/jose-luis-tan-estrada-cuban-journalist-exile.php