■ Elon Musk’s X Corp. has filed its defamation suit against Media Matters in Texas, apparently hoping to draw a sympathetic judge.
■ Another small-town newspaper has found itself on First Amendment front lines after local authorities arrest a reporter and the publisher.
■ A California reporter’s unpublished notes were surrendered to avoid a contempt-of-court ruling in a setback for press freedoms, advocates said.
Order form. Debating whether gag orders against Donald Trump violate the First Amendment is pointless, declared a former federal prosecutor in a recent commentary for The Daily Beast.
■ The on-again, off-again gag order barring Trump from making public statements in his civil fraud was reinstated by a New York appellate court.
■ With few victories, the press has kept up the fight in its battle against camera bans in Trump courtroom trials.
■ A longtime journalist for The New Yorker has explained why Trump’s trials should be on television in a recent commentary.
Next chapter. Librarians in several states who believe they were fired for opposing book bans have filed workplace-discrimination claims with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
■ Florida’s government has argued that the contents of a public library are “government speech,” giving it absolute control over what books are made available to students. First Amendment advocates, including Free Speech Center Director Ken Paulson, call the contention extreme and unfounded.
■ LGBTQ+ groups have sued the state of Iowa to stop a new law that bans certain books and gender-identity discussions in schools.
■ Parents can fight the release of a Tennessee school shooter’s writings, an appeals court ruled in a public-records case.
■ A California district attorney reversed course after she came under fire from journalism advocates for barring a credentialed reporter from entering a press conference.
■ An Arizona journalist with visible press credentials and a camera was restrained and cited for criminal trespassing while covering a pro-Palestine protest in Tucson.
■ A Fox News correspondent, nearly killed by Russian bombs last year reporting from Ukraine, returned to the country for an interview with its president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
■ Dozens of journalists have been killed covering the Gaza war. Her friend was one of them.
AI blues. Sports Illustrated became the latest media company to have its reputation tarnished by the discovery of artificially generated articles, photos, and writers.
■ Josh Tyrangiel interpreted what SI’s AI controversy really means for journalism in a commentary for The Washington Post.
■ Former CNN boss Jeff Zucker’s bid to buy British news outlets was halted over concerns that the proposed deal constituted a “potential breach of media standards.”
■ Wisconsin lawmakers have introduced a bill that would protect student newspapers from school administration censorship.
■ Josh Tyrangiel interpreted what SI’s AI controversy really means for journalism in a commentary for The Washington Post.
■ Former CNN boss Jeff Zucker’s bid to buy British news outlets was halted over concerns that the proposed deal constituted a “potential breach of media standards.”
■ Wisconsin lawmakers have introduced a bill that would protect student newspapers from school administration censorship.