Trevor Timm
@trevortimm
Executive director, @FreedomofPress. Views here are mine only.
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🗓️Mark your calendar: Join us and The Ellsberg Initiative for Peace & Democracy on March 27 at 7 pm ET for a panel discussion: 'The Pentagon Papers and the Ongoing Threats to Freedom of the Press'
With Trevor Timm; Project On Government Oversight's Danielle Brian; and Knight First Amendment Institute's Jameel Jaffer
RSVP: zoom.us/webinar/regist…
The PRESS Act would finally end federal surveillance of journalists.
It's the most important press freedom bill in modern times.
Watch Trevor Timm explain why on NewsNation with Christopher C. Cuomo: youtube.com/watch?v=qj9Moi…
This is just nuts. House Intel chair tells colleagues they need to reauthorize FISA 702 so the gov't can spy on anti-war protesters outside Chuck Schumer's house.
Chuck Schumer & Hakeem Jeffries can to stop this by requiring warrants for backdoor searches. Will they do it?
The public is paying the price for local government secrecy: When officials wrongly keep constituents in the dark and journalists fight for transparency, taxpayers are left with the bill
Read our #SunshineWeek blog post by Senior Reporter Stephanie Sugars
pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/the-publi…
With criminal justice, time can drag. But here:
▪️ Dept of Justice reversed course 2 days after our story
▪️ Yesterday a judge vacated Keyon Paylor's conviction
▪️ Today the pending indictment was tossed
9 days after ProPublica's story, the case is closed. Paylor's exonerated.
ACLU Ben Wizner Richard Falk Evelyn Douek U.S. Department of Justice Rep. Jim McGovern Joe Biden 📹 Did you miss our Thursday discussion?
Watch it in full here: Jailing Journalists: The Assange case and the threat to press freedom youtu.be/ktr6d1T1AOI
Featuring Rep. Jim McGovern, Trevor Timm, @aclu's Ben Wizner, EFF, and Knight First Amendment Institute.
Prosecuting Julian Assange threatens journalists and press freedom.
Join @FreedomOfPress in calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to drop the Assange case now!
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Join EFF’s Cindy Cohn, Knight First Amendment Institute’s Carrie DeCell, Freedom of the Press’ Trevor Timm & ACLU’s Ben Wizner for a virtual panel discussion explaining how the Julian Assange prosecution endangers all journalists, 12:30pm EST on Feb. 15. Register now at us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…