FOI news from The Associated Press
The Associated Press regularly reports on free press, FOI and media access issues. You can read highlights of that coverage below.

AP Stories

  APTN cameraman shot while walking to a mosque in Baghdad, fifth AP employee to die
 

 

  Read Tom Curley's March 14, 2007 Senate Judiciary Committee FOIA testimony as a representative of the Sunshine in Government Initiative
  AP's Tom Curley to testify about the Freedom of Information Act at Senate hearing
   
  AP CEO Tom Curley's May 7, 2004 Hays Press-Enterprise Lecture
   
  The Detention of AP Photographer Bilal Hussein
   
  SUNSHINE WEEK 2007
   
  2007 AP FOI NEWS AND MEDIA ACCESS STORIES
   
08/14/2007 Taliban wins media attention with South Korean hostages, gaining platform to push agenda
08/13/2007 U.S. judge tells 5 reporters they must reveal sources in anthrax leak case
08/07/2007 Iraqi journalist working for Associated Press is missing and reportedly taken prisoner
08/05/2007 Senate approves measure to extend Freedom of Information requirements
07/27/2007 Judge turns down Associated Press request to unseal names in Jason Grimsley case
07/26/2007 NFL plans governing media coverage rankles some newspapers
06/29/2007 Supreme Court justices will consider Guantanamo Bay detainees' challenges
06/26/2007 CIA releases censored internal misconduct reports that set off a domestic spying scandal
06/15/2007 Marshals Service initially found no laws broken in seizure of tape recordings of Scalia speech
06/07/2007 AP, other media denied same-day access to Padilla trial audio
06/01/2007 White House officials had lengthy debate before deciding to call visitor records confidential
06/01/2007 Reporters Without Borders calls for new measures to protect media in Iraq
05/23/2007 Justice Dept. orders release of documents over erasure of Scalia speech
05/22/2007 3 New York Times journalists detained for 5 days in Ethiopia, then released, paper says
05/21/2007 Iraqi journalist kidnapped and killed
05/21/2007 Journalist shield law derailed in Texas House
   
05/19/2007 AP president sees new push for open government, change from post-Sept. 11 attitudes
05/15/2007 Iraqi police fire in air to keep photographers and camera operators from bombing site
05/11/2007 Reporters Without Borders delivers financial help to families of slain journalists
05/08/2007 Press protection group draws attention to 2 detained journalists
05/06/2007 AP IMPACT: Nazi 'master race' delusions tore children between two worlds
04/23/2007 Review: Illinois state police routinely reject requests for public information
04/19/2007 Journalist shield law fails to get Senate vote in Texas
04/17/2007 Reporter shield law heads to Washington governor
04/17/2007 Pennsylvania Auditor General to audit college-loan agency
04/13/2007 AP IMPACT: 1950 'shoot refugees' letter was known to No Gun Ri inquiry, but went undisclosed
04/11/2007 1 year after arrest, AP photographer still held without charges in Iraq
03/27/2007 Specter advocates passage of law to protect journalists
03/27/2007 House panel calls for expedited opening of Nazi files
03/20/2007 Calif. government issues new rules on when its contracts may be kept confidential
03/16/2007 Press group protests proposed restrictions at Rugby World Cup
03/15/2007 In confession, terror suspect says he beheaded Pearl
03/10/2007 U.S. military claims deletion of AP footage at attack site in Afghanistan justified
03/09/2007 U.S. holds first hearings for 'high-value' Guantanamo prisoners
03/09/2007 FBI broke law in prying out Americans' personal info, attorney general, FBI head say
03/09/2007 Reporters hurt as Israeli security forces break up Palestinian demonstrations
03/08/2007 Judge says U.S. Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh's arguments for lighter sentence stay secret
03/07/2007 Opposition to media being kept out of hearings at Guantanamo
03/06/2007 CIA leak trial prompts scrutiny of news reporting practices
03/06/2007 More than 1,000 journalists and support staff die during deadly decade
03/05/2007 Wal-Mart fires technician over improper monitoring of emails
and phone calls
03/04/2007 Afghan journalists say U.S. soldiers deleted photos, video after bomb attack and shootings
02/21/2007 Transcript: Woman who secretly recorded carjacking before she was killed pleaded with captor
02/21/2007 CIA leak trial case goes to jury: Former Cheney aide accused of perjury
02/20/2007 Judges: Guantanamo prisoners can't use courts to challenge detentions
02/20/2007 The slow pace of detainees' justice: 1 courtroom, thousands of documents
02/15/2007 Government sunshine boosters want ombudsman for Freedom of Information Act
02/15/2007 Libby ends abbreviated defense testimony; closing arguments next
02/05/2007 Watchdog: Mideast restricts media as U.S. freedom push falters
02/05/2007 News organizations cheer judge's ruling on Libby tapes
02/01/2007 81 reporters killed in 2006; most deadly year in more than a decade, group says
01/31/2007 Mosques still show damage from attacks in Hurriyah
01/31/2007 Mixed Baghdad neighborhood now firmly controlled by Shiite radicals
01/18/2007 Paris-based journalism advocacy group calls for concerted action after six media employees killed
01/09/2007 Canada's government warns against end to automatic ban on reporting some evidence
01/09/2007 Judge won't make tapes available in Libby trial
01/08/2007 Media challenges ban in Canadian terror suspect hearings
01/05/2007 News media seek audio recordings of Libby trial
01/05/2007 AP employee found shot to death in Iraq
01/04/2007 Iraq threatens arrest of police captain who spoke to media
01/04/2007 Family relieved FBI dropped quest for late columnist's documents

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