Marty Baron

@postbaron.bsky.social

Journalist

The right move. And an excellent, forceful statement: "We have asked the court to order the immediate return of all seized materials and prevent their use. Anything less would license future newsroom raids and normalize censorship by search warrant.” wapo.st/4jUxQEe

Washington Post demands government return materials seized from reporter

The Post demanded in a court filing Wednesday that federal law enforcement officials return electronic devices the government seized from a staff reporter’s home.

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News: Journalists at Voice of America were just informed that they’ve been put on administrative leave. Two people there told me this went to all fulltime employees. “From what we can tell, VOA is effectively shut down from this moment.”

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An important piece by Andras Petho, a courageous and independent Hungarian journalist, about what happened in his country and what it signals for the United States.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/trumps-press-freedom-hungary-orban/682060/

New: Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news websites and competitors he dislikes, including this one. Five-second delays on links to Bluesky, New York Times, Reuters, Facebook, Instagram, Threads and Substack. Most other sites we tested have zero delay https://wapo.st/3OYfTa6