{"id":308464,"date":"2025-12-01T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=308464"},"modified":"2025-11-26T09:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:00:27","slug":"state-of-the-free-press-2026-project-censored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/12\/state-of-the-free-press-2026-project-censored\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Free Press 2026 &#8211; Project Censored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>23 Nov 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\" role=\"text\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">The problem of censorship and suppressed news in the United States is older than 50 years, but it has recently exploded along with the rise of social and independent media, said the panel at Politics &amp; Prose on 21 Nov in Washington D.C. The evening marked the 50th anniversary of <em>Project Censored<\/em> and the publication of is annual review, <em>State of the Free Press 2026<\/em>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\" role=\"text\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">On the panel are Ryan Grim, co-founder of <em>Drop Site News<\/em>; John Kiriakou, C.I.A. whistleblower; <em>Freedom of the Press Foundation<\/em>\u2019s Lauren Harper; <em>Consortium News<\/em> Editor Joe Lauria; and Mischa Geracoulis and Mickey Huff of <em>Project Censored<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"State of the Free Press 2026 -  Project Censored\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gJrA6qNmEoU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 Nov 2025 &#8211; The problem of censorship and suppressed news has exploded with the rise of social and independent media, said the panel at Politics &#038; Prose on 21 Nov at the 50th anniversary of Project Censored and the publication of is annual review, State of the Free Press 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[1785,1017,125,3730],"class_list":["post-308464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-censorship","tag-freedom-of-information","tag-freedom-of-the-press","tag-project-censored"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308468,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308464\/revisions\/308468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}