This week sees the resumption in London of the extradition hearing for Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks. Assange faces charges in the U.S. of conspiring with Chelsea Manning and hackers to gain access to and publish classified information that embarrassed the government. It's an extraordinary proceeding which has American officials claiming that U.S. law applies to a foreign publisher, but that U.S. constitutional protections do not.

Attack the press, and you attack the very system that has made places like the US and Australia among the safest and most prosperous in the world.

Online child exploitation is a horrific crime that requires an effective response, but this bill fails to meet the challenge and creates new problems of its own.

There is often no audit on the world’s extractive industries. When reporters provide that check they are put in danger, says investigative journalist Mark Schapiro

Journalists could face years in jail for handling a classified military document that revealed details about France’s involvement in the Yemen conflict. By Ryan Gallagher. (May 17, 2019)

Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act walked free from a prison on the outskirts of Yangon on Tuesday after spending more than 500 days behind bars.

Here’s a problem worth pondering: imagine you publish a Medium post one night (after hundreds of laborious edits) to wake up the next morning and find at least 3 publishers, including Medium itself, running it as a story of theirs, with very minimal [cr]edits to your original, heavily edited text, if any. Some publishers, however, may try to make your title more clickbait at any cost of truth and effort. But that sounds great, you may think — it’s publicity and validation! While it may indeed be, it’s actually what Churnalism is.

The news industry doesn’t look like it did a decade ago. Poynter interviewed 15 journalists from across the United States to hear their experiences during the last 10 years.

Exclusive: preoccupation with conflict fosters insecurity, populism and trust deficit, says Johan Galtung

Wired has just published what might be the single most brazenly dishonest and manipulative piece of down-punching empire smut that I have ever read. By Caitlin Johnstone.

A maverick war correspondent, Hemingway's third wife was the only woman at D-Day. Her husband wanted her home in his bed. by Paula McLain.

Dear President Trump, I was sorry you didn’t make it to Annapolis. We’ve just finished eulogizing our dead friends. Maybe you could have said a few nice words, too. I'm writing you to ask this question: How do we make this the last mass shooting in America?

Who Killed Hunter S Thompson? is a big and beautiful compendium of friends’ reminiscences of the infamous writer. By Scott Bradfield.

The prizes encompassed, among other topics, stories of abuse in the workplace; construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall; and a profile of Dylann Roof, who was charged with killing several people in a Charleston, S.C., church.

Thirty years ago, an acclaimed series of documentaries introduced the world to an isolated tribe in Papua New Guinea. What happened when the cameras left?

The War Nerd’s interview with guest, journalist and author Robert Parry, one of the original crusading investigative journalists who broke the Iran-Contra and Contra-cocaine stories in the 80s, the October Surprise— and experienced first-hand the crushing of independent investigative journalism from Reagan through today. Starts at 33:30. (Mar. 20, 2017)

Robert Parry, editor and publisher of Consortiumnews.com, died peacefully Saturday evening. In this tribute, his son Nat Parry describes Robert's unwavering commitment to independent journalism.

Peter Hoekstra, the newly minted U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, held his first conference with the Dutch media on Wednesday. It did not go well.

The slaying of Gauri Lankesh shows how much trouble India's liberal democracy is in. By Shikha Dalmia.

Journalist Yulia Latynina has left Russia with her family after a series of attacks on her in recent months. "I have left Russia in connection with threats to my life," Latynina said on Twitter, adding the hashtag "#Putin."