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  "title": "Incidents: funding and ownership pressure in North America, outcome sustained",
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      "slug": "2026-el-salvador-freezes-el-faro-shareholder-assets",
      "title": "El Salvador: freeze on assets of shareholders in El Faro's parent company, February to April 2026",
      "occurred_on": "2026-04-01",
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      "outcome": "sustained",
      "outcome_on": "2026-05-08",
      "outcome_note": "In place as reported by CPJ on 2026-05-08; no reversal is reported in the sources cited.",
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      "rsf": {
        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
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      "status": "in_effect",
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      "summary": "Between February and April 2026, the government of El Salvador, headed by the president, Nayib Bukele, placed \"preventative annotations\" on a bank account and real estate belonging to two partners of Trípode S.A. de C.V., the parent company of the investigative news outlet El Faro, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a non-profit organization in New York. CPJ said on May 8, 2026 that \"the targeting of individual shareholders' personal assets marks a dangerous escalation in the Bukele administration's long-standing effort to dismantle El Faro through administrative harassment.\" The sources cited give no public reason from the Salvadoran government for the measure.",
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      "slug": "2025-fcc-approves-paramount-skydance-with-ombudsman-condition",
      "title": "FCC approves Paramount-Skydance merger after CBS ombudsman and anti-DEI pledges",
      "occurred_on": "2025-07-24",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "US",
      "country_name": "United States",
      "continent": "north-america",
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      "leader_name": "Donald Trump",
      "issue_of_the_day": "The approval came weeks after Paramount paid $16 million to settle President Trump's lawsuit over 60 Minutes' editing of a Harris interview, a settlement critics said was made to smooth the path for the FCC's review of the Skydance sale.",
      "outcome": "sustained",
      "outcome_on": "2025-07-24",
      "outcome_note": "The FCC approved the merger with the ombudsman and anti-DEI conditions in place; Commissioner Gomez's dissent did not change the outcome.",
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      "ladder_note": null,
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        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
        "rank": 64,
        "of": 180,
        "label": "RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180",
        "source_url": "https://rsf.org/en/index"
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      "era": "2020s",
      "granularity": "granular",
      "status": "in_effect",
      "case_count": 0,
      "summary": "The Federal Communications Commission approved Paramount's sale to Skydance Media after Skydance agreed to install an ombudsman to review complaints of bias at CBS News for two years and pledged to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs, over the objection of the commission's sole Democratic member.",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-fcc-approves-paramount-skydance-with-ombudsman-condition"
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      "slug": "2025-congress-rescinds-cpb-funding",
      "title": "Congress cuts $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting",
      "occurred_on": "2025-07-18",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "US",
      "country_name": "United States",
      "continent": "north-america",
      "jurisdiction": "US",
      "level": "national",
      "tactic_primary": "funding_and_ownership_pressure",
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      "leader_name": "Donald Trump",
      "issue_of_the_day": "The rescission followed years of conservative criticism that NPR and PBS produced one-sided coverage, and came weeks after President Trump's May 2025 executive order directing agencies to stop funding the two networks.",
      "outcome": "sustained",
      "outcome_on": "2025-07-24",
      "outcome_note": "The rescission became law on July 24, 2025 (Public Law 119-28), eliminating CPB's federal appropriation; no restoration of the funding had occurred in the sources reviewed.",
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      "ladder_note": null,
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        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
        "year": 2026,
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        "of": 180,
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      "status": "in_effect",
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      "summary": "At President Trump's request, Congress passed a rescissions package clawing back roughly $1.1 billion already appropriated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, eliminating federal funding for NPR, PBS and their member stations.",
      "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-congress-rescinds-cpb-funding"
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      "slug": "2025-60-minutes-producer-owens-resigns-loss-of-independence",
      "title": "60 Minutes executive producer resigns, citing lost editorial independence",
      "occurred_on": "2025-04-22",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "US",
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      "leader_slug": "donald-trump",
      "leader_name": "Donald Trump",
      "issue_of_the_day": "Paramount was defending CBS against Trump's lawsuit over 60 Minutes' editing of a Kamala Harris interview while seeking Federal Communications Commission approval to sell the company to Skydance, a deal Trump's approval-holding regulator could delay or block.",
      "outcome": "sustained",
      "outcome_on": "2025-04-22",
      "outcome_note": "Owens's resignation was not reversed; the program continued under Paramount's new oversight amid the pending settlement and merger.",
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      "ladder_note": null,
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        "index": "RSF World Press Freedom Index",
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      "summary": "60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens resigned, saying corporate owner Paramount had begun supervising the program's content in new ways while it faced President Trump's lawsuit over a Harris interview and pursued a sale requiring federal approval; the program publicly said on air that it had lost the independence it once had.",
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