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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth salutes as he welcomes Qatar's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman al-Thani at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 10, 2025. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno

CPJ urges Pentagon to reconsider new press access restrictions

October 10, 2025 4:03 PM EDT

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…

Pentagon’s revised Law of War Manual recognizes role of independent journalists

July 22, 2016 12:01 AM EDT

Washington, July 22, 2016–The Pentagon no longer considers journalists operating independently of U.S. military forces as potential spies, terrorists, or saboteurs, according to U.S. military officials who have rewritten the military’s Law of War Manual.