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The Committee to Protect Journalists has joined an amicus brief, authored by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP), in support of the Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation’s lawsuit against the Trump administration’s visa and deportation policies in connection with First Amendment rights for non-citizens. The Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation, which publishes Stanford University’s…

The Committee to Protect Journalists in a Friday letter called on U.S. Secretary of State Rubio to clarify recent decisions to revoke visas. Under the second Trump administration, the State Department has revoked visas for international journalists, as well as commentators and writers, in connection with their reporting or speech on foreign affairs. On October 26, British commentator Sami…

The Committee to Protect Journalists called on the Pentagon to reconsider new restrictions on journalists covering the Department of War in a letter sent Friday to the United States Assistant to the Secretary of War for Public Affairs. The Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of War for Public Affairs announced new policies and…

Washington, D.C., October 3, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed after a six-person jury on Thursday convicted Ohio journalist Lucas Griffith of failure to disperse while covering a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions, and imposed a $50 fine. “It is outrageous that journalists in the United States have faced trial in…

Update: Mario Guevara was deported from the United States on a 4 a.m. flight on October 3, 2025. Washington, D.C., October 2, 2025—In response to news that journalist Mario Guevara will be deported on Friday from the United States back to his native El Salvador, the Committee to Protect Journalists and Free Press issued the following…

Washington, D.C., October 1, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists and Free Press express deep concern that a United States Appeals Court rejected a motion for stay of removal in the case of Mario Guevara, meaning that the journalist could now be deported back to his native El Salvador.  In a decision published Wednesday, the court…

The Committee to Protect Journalists, in a public comment submitted Monday, urges the Trump administration to drop proposed changes to the duration and application for foreign media visas, known as “I visas,” for journalists working in the United States. Currently, such visas can last for the period of a journalist’s employment with a recognized foreign…

The Committee to Protect Journalists supports a letter organized by PEN America, in collaboration with the Free Press, calling for journalist Mario Guevara’s release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.   Guevara, who faces imminent deportation back to his native El Salvador, has been in law enforcement detention for more than 100 days since his June 14 arrest in…

Washington, D.C., September 30, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr to refrain from politicizing the agency’s regulatory authority and to respect the First Amendment rights of media organizations to report the news without fear of retaliation. Under Carr’s leadership, the FCC has reopened investigations into some major broadcasters,…

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined four press freedom groups—including Freedom of the Press Foundation, PEN America, and Reporters Without Borders—in an amicus brief supporting detained Spanish-language journalist Mario Guevara’s habeas corpus petition in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Guevara faces imminent deportation back to his native El Salvador. The brief, filed by media…