Press Freedom
National Press Club announces Emilio Gutiérrez's release in victory for press freedom
July 27, 2018
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on July 26 agreed to free journalist Emilio Gutiérrez-Soto, ending a nearly eight-month ordeal for the National Press Club Press Freedom award winner. Gutiérrez's release from a detention facility in El Paso, Texas, will allow him to embark on a Knight…
Read MoreGroundbreaking decision for asylum-seekers gives National Press Club award winner his day in court
July 11, 2018
A federal judge is challenging the government’s detention of a National Press Club award-winner, saying there is “enough evidence” to suggest that immigration officials violated the First Amendment rights of Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez-Soto and his son, Oscar. In a 26-page order filed…
Read MoreNational Press Club calls for release of award-winning Egyptian journalist
June 26, 2018
Contact: Kathy Kiely, National Press Club Journalism Institute Press Freedom Fellow, [email protected] UPDATE 6/27: The National Press Foundation has signed onto this letter. WASHINGTON, June 26 —The National Press Club and its nonprofit Journalism Institute, along with the Committee to Protect…
Read MorePress and free speech groups question raid on reporter's records
June 15, 2018
Following the Justice Department’s seizure of a reporter’s phone and email communications without prior notice, The National Press Club, PEN America and more than a dozen other leading organizations representing professional journalists and free speech advocates are demanding an explanation from…
Read MoreNational Press Club, reporters’ groups decry seizure of NYT reporter’s records
June 8, 2018
Following reports that the Justice Department seized telephone and electronic communication records of a New York Times reporter, leaders of the National Press Club and several professional journalism organizations plan to invite Attorney General Jeff Sessions to meet about the dangers such…
Read MoreNational Press Club unveils plan for media summit after reporter roughed up at EPA meeting
May 22, 2018
The National Press Club and its Journalism Institute are renewing a call for dialogue between newsmakers and the news media following another incident in which officials of President Donald Trump’s administration manhandled a reporter in a public building. Hours after one of its reporters was…
Read MoreNational Press Club award-winner Emilio Gutiérrez wins new asylum hearing
May 21, 2018
The U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) has ordered a new asylum hearing for Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez-Soto, saying a judge needs to consider “additional evidence” supporting the National Press Club Freedom of the Press award winner’s case. The BIA ruling, handed down last week, means…
Read MoreNational Press Club Announces that University of Michigan Awards Journalism Fellowship to Jailed Reporter
May 4, 2018
Emilio Gutiérrez-Soto, a Mexican journalist whom U.S. immigration officials are attempting to deport despite death threats against him in his home country, has been awarded a Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan. Lynette Clemetson, executive director of the prestigious journalism…
Read MoreNational Press Club Statement On Deaths of Journalists in Afghanistan
April 30, 2018
Following is a statement by National Press Club President Andrea Edney on the deaths of journalists today in Afghanistan. "We were angered and saddened by the news from Afghanistan today that at least nine of our colleagues were killed in a bombing in Kabul. This is a tragic reminder of the real…
Read MoreNational Press Club: Homeland Security wants court to ignore journalism groups, evidence in asylum case
April 12, 2018
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants the Board of Immigration Appeals to dismiss 500 pages of evidence presented by The National Press Club and 16 other professional journalism organizations in the asylum case of Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, an award-winning Mexican journalist. In a brief filed…
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