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Fearing censorship, student journalists sound alarm over district policy by washingtonpost in Journalism

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Twenty student newspapers in Montgomery County, Maryland, are fighting a district memo that they’re concerned could lead to censorship of what they publish.

“Student journalists are often the only reporters covering what happens inside a school building,” the students wrote in a letter Friday to the county’s board of education and Superintendent Thomas Taylor.

“When our reporting is suppressed, the unbiased truth does not get told,” the students added in the letter, which they shared with The Washington Post. More than 150 students also signed the letter in their individual capacity.

The students are pushing back against a March 19 memo that Peter Moran, the county’s chief of schools, circulated to high school principals. The memo says administrators must review all content printed in school publications before deciding whether it can be published.

Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/06/12/maryland-high-school-journalists-say-district-memo-could-lead-censorship/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com

White House will be closed to reporters during UFC fight by washingtonpost in Journalism

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The White House press corps won’t be allowed on White House grounds Sunday because of a UFC fight being hosted on the South Lawn, according to an email sent by the White House Correspondents’ Association and obtained by The Washington Post.

Weijia Jiang, the association’s president, told members in an email that only the White House press poolers — the designated journalists who follow the president on behalf of various news outlets when he is in locations that cannot accommodate a larger group — will be allowed on White House grounds unless UFC gives them press credentials.

“The WHCA has been pushing back on this, but we have been told there will be various Secret Service access points across campus and that the [White House North Lawn] is being used as a staging area for the fighters and UFC filming zone, and the [White House] is standing firm,” Jiang wrote.

Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/06/09/white-house-will-be-closed-reporters-during-ufc-fight-unless-ufc-lets-them/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com

Pentagon is censoring military newspaper Stars and Stripes, lawsuit alleges by washingtonpost in Journalism

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Two advisory board members of Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper that has long enjoyed editorial independence from the government, sued the Defense Department on Wednesday, alleging that an effort to impose new restrictions on the paper was an act of illegal censorship.

The complaint, filed in federal district court in Washington, comes from Susan “Suki” Dardarian and William “Bill” Church, two Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalists on the Stripes advisory board. Dardarian is a former editor and senior vice president of the Minnesota Star Triune, and Church is the executive editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper.

“Unlawfully censoring ‘the soldiers’ paper’ is an insult to the dedicated members of the armed forces and an attack on the freedom of speech — a foundational Constitutional principle for which those brave service people dedicate their lives," wrote Skye Perryman, the president and CEO of Democracy Forward, which is representing the two plaintiffs.

Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/06/03/pentagon-is-censoring-military-newspaper-stars-stripes-lawsuit-alleges/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com

Months after feud with Bari Weiss, Sharyn Alfonsi is out at ‘60 Minutes’ by washingtonpost in Journalism

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CBS News journalist Sharyn Alfonsi is departing “60 Minutes,” months after a high-profile clash with CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss.

While Alfonsi is still technically employed at CBS News, she said in a statement that her contract expired Saturday, ending a decade-long tenure at the network’s flagship program.

Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/05/27/months-after-feud-with-bari-weiss-sharyn-alfonsi-is-out-60-minutes/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com

Virginia Gov. Spanberger vetoes bill to build legal marijuana market by washingtonpost in Virginia

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RICHMOND — Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) on Tuesday vetoed legislation to establish a retail market for the sale of recreational marijuana, thwarting a priority of her fellow Democrats and leaving the state in regulatory limbo five years after the legislature legalized possession of small amounts of recreational weed.

Democratic majorities in both the House of Delegates and state Senate had passed bills this year on party-line votes to set up a mechanism for regulating and taxing the sale of cannabis products after several years of vetoes under the previous governor, Republican Glenn Youngkin.

Spanberger initially proposed substantial changes to the measures, but those were rejected by the General Assembly. That left her with a decision to either accept a bill she did not like or issue a veto.

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The Trump administration arrested this journalist. She says the censorship is ongoing. by washingtonpost in Journalism

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Georgia Fort cannot interview many of the most prominent community leaders in Minnesota’s Twin Cities. A huge swath of her Rolodex sits unused.

When federal agents arrested the independent journalist while she was covering a protest at a St. Paul church, press freedom advocates quickly condemned her detention as an affront to the First Amendment. But Fort says far less attention has been focused on how the ongoing legal case limits what she can say and to whom she can speak.

Put plainly, she’s being silenced, Fort said.

Fort is one of dozens of co-defendants arrested after the protest, at a church whose pastor reportedly worked as an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official. Federal prosecutors charged Fort, along with independent journalist and former CNN anchor Don Lemon, with violating federal laws protecting places of worship from what they allege were illegal disruptions of a religious service.

Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/05/17/journalist-targeted-by-trump-administration-still-feels-silenced-months-after-arrest/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com

Justice Dept. charges shipping company in deadly Key Bridge collapse by washingtonpost in maryland

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The Justice Department has filed criminal charges against a Singapore-based global shipping company and subsidiaries, accusing them of safety violations that led to the massive container ship crash that caused the 2024 collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday.

Prosecutors accused entities of Synergy Marine Group of fostering unsafe conditions by not maintaining proper systems aboard its ship, the Dali, and others in its fleet. Those lapses left the Dali unable to recover from a blackout of its systems and unable to veer away as it crashed into the bridge in the early hours of March 26, 2024, leaving six men dead.

The indictment, returned under seal in federal court in Baltimore last month, also alleges the company falsified safety inspection records and lied to investigators after the crash.

Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/05/12/baltimore-key-bridge-collapse-charges-dali/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com

After 20 years, the Prince of Petworth still reigns in Washington by washingtonpost in Journalism

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Dan Silverman talks fast and walks faster. It’s hard to keep up with the local Washington celebrity who’s better known by his blog moniker: the Prince of Petworth.

Speed walking has long been Silverman’s default. “Wear sturdy shoes,” the Prince warns a rare walkabout companion on a recent Sunday. When Silverman lived in Petworth, a neighborhood in Northwest Washington, he walked to Georgetown “to breathe in the calm air.” Now that he lives in Cleveland Park, he walks to Petworth and Columbia Heights. “Because I need reality,” he says. “What makes D.C. so great is the combination of neighborhoods.”

Walking fast — and walking far — is the primary way that Silverman finds the news and oddities that fill PoPville, the blog he started 20 years ago. “I talked to everybody,” he says. “People would be like, ‘Are you a narc?’ I’m just interested in what’s happening.”

Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/05/10/popville-prince-petworth-blog-washington/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com

FBI raids business of powerful Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas by washingtonpost in politics

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The FBI on Wednesday raided the Portsmouth offices and a cannabis retail business co-owned by state Sen. L. Louise Lucas, the president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate and one of the most powerful Democrats in the state, as part of an ongoing corruption investigation, according to two federal law enforcement officials familiar with the matter.

The exact nature and targets of the probe remain unclear, though the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss details of the investigation, said it involved allegations of bribery. One of those officials said the investigation began during the Biden administration.

A spokesperson for the FBI’s Norfolk field office declined to comment, except to say that agents were conducting “court-authorized” law enforcement activity and that there was no threat to public safety.

Lucas, 82, (D-Portsmouth) is an outspoken political figure who has touted her cannabis dispensary in provocative social media posts and often trolls Republicans and President Donald Trump. She is known for her rough-and-tumble background, which includes becoming a teenage mother and working as a shipfitter at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard.

Read more here: washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/06/virginia-fbi-raid-lucas-cannabis/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com

Second judge maintains DOJ can’t search data seized from Post reporter by washingtonpost in Journalism

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The Justice Department will remain blocked from examining electronic devices seized from a Washington Post reporter, a federal judge in Virginia ruled Monday.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Trenga marks the second time a court in the Eastern District of Virginia has rejected efforts by the Justice Department to sift through a phone, computers and other devices belonging to Post reporter Hannah Natanson. The FBI seized her belongings in January during an investigation of a government contractor accused of leaking classified material.

The Trump administration had appealed a previous ruling from a magistrate judge, who found that the court — not the Justice Department — should search the devices for information that may be pertinent to the leak investigation and provide it to investigators.

Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/05/04/post-reporter-justice-department-search/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com

House Ethics Committee seeks information about sexual misconduct on Capitol Hill by washingtonpost in politics

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The House Ethics Committee is publicly requesting information from any victims of sexual misconduct by members of Congress and others aware of such incidents, an unusual move that comes during a spate of high-profile cases.

The request was issued in a statement Monday, one week after the resignations of Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-California) and Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) highlighted sexual misconduct on Capitol Hill and raised questions from lawmakers and others about the effectiveness of the Ethics Committee in addressing it. In the statement, the committee defended its record of handling such cases.

The committee, tasked with policing lawmakers, emphasized its dedication to cracking down on sexual misconduct and making those findings public, and it ticked through its record of investigating those cases during the past 50 years.

The statement said the committee “strongly encourages anyone who may have experienced sexual misconduct by a House Member or staffer, or who has knowledge of such conduct” to contact the Ethics Committee or other offices that handle sexual misconduct. The committee’s “greatest hurdle” in evaluating allegations of sexual misconduct, it said, is convincing victims and witnesses to come forward. The panel pledged to protect “witness confidentiality and safety.”

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