Lesley Kirby is Reporters Committee's chief of staff. In this role, Lesley serves as a strategic partner to the president, Steering Committee, and Executive Team; drives organizational priorities; ...
The Reporters Committee recognizes journalism and media law leaders at our annual Freedom of the Press Awards. The event is a highlight of our year where friends, honorees, and partners gather with us ...
Garrett Yalch, a reporter for The Frontier, submitted a request under Oklahoma’s Open Records Act seeking a variety of public ...
Reporters Committee President Bruce D. Brown called the investigation “another and even more brazen attempt to try to ...
Background: In September 2025, journalist Alison Flowers submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. Secret Service seeking records related to the federal criminal prosecution of Dee ...
Background: Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2(c) is a little-known rule that blocks the public and the press from accessing electronic court records filed in immigration cases, including habeas ...
Reporters Committee attorneys are representing The Associated Press in a First Amendment challenge to a federal court rule that makes it difficult for the press and public to monitor the Trump ...
Background: In April 2026, the Federal Communications Commission launched an early review of ABC’s local broadcasting licenses following criticism of the network by the Trump administration, including ...
Paul Janes is a Media Law Fellow at the Reporters Committee. Paul graduated from Cornell Law in Ithaca, New York, where he was an acquisitions editor for the Journal of Law and Public Policy and a ...
Update: Journalists for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico were allowed to return to the White House grounds at around noon on Thursday, Sept. 24. A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration ...
Maggie Hicks is the communications coordinator at Reporters Committee. Before joining Reporters Committee, Maggie worked as the communications specialist for Bridges Baltimore, an education nonprofit ...
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