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Incidents in North America, outcome reversed
Each incident is a dated action by a government, an official, a regulator, a court or a legislature that limited journalists' ability to gather or publish news.
18 incidents match this view.
| Date | Incident | Country | Tactic | Head of government | Outcome |
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| July 10, 2026 | Customs officers seize Grayzone editor's phones at Virginia airport over Iran reporting | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Donald Trump | Reversed (July 17, 2026) |
| September 17, 2025 | United States: Federal Communications Commission chairman's remarks and the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, September 2025 | United States | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Reversed (September 23, 2025) |
| August 11, 2023 | Police raid Marion County Record newsroom and publisher's home in Kansas | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Laura Kelly | Reversed (August 5, 2024) |
| July 21, 2023 | Federal court strikes down Arizona's law banning recording police within 8 feet | United States | Access bans | Doug Ducey | Reversed (July 21, 2023) |
| July 20, 2021 | Court orders RCMP to stop restricting press access at Fairy Creek logging blockades | Canada | Access bans | John Horgan | Reversed (July 20, 2021) |
| July 19, 2021 | Justice Department bars seizing reporters' phone and email records | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Joe Biden | Reversed (April 25, 2025) |
| July 16, 2020 | Federal officers restrict press access to Portland protests; judge orders them to stop | United States | Access bans | Donald Trump | Reversed (July 16, 2020) |
| May 29, 2020 | Minnesota State Patrol arrests CNN crew live on air in Minneapolis | United States | Detention and violence | Tim Walz | Reversed (May 29, 2020) |
| May 23, 2019 | United States indicts WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Espionage Act | United States | Secrets and espionage laws | Donald Trump | Reversed (June 25, 2024) |
| November 7, 2018 | White House revokes CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's press credential after a news conference exchange with President Trump | United States | Credential control | Donald Trump | Reversed (November 19, 2018) |
| November 7, 2018 | United States: White House suspension of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's hard pass, November 2018 | United States | Credential control | Donald Trump | Reversed (November 19, 2018) |
| October 17, 2014 | United States pursues New York Times reporter James Risen's testimony for years before dropping its demand for his source | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Barack Obama | Reversed (October 17, 2014) |
| July 5, 2010 | United States charges Army analyst Chelsea Manning under the Espionage Act for leaking to WikiLeaks | United States | Secrets and espionage laws | Barack Obama | Reversed (January 17, 2017) |
| October 25, 1983 | United States military bars journalists from the invasion of Grenada | United States | Access bans | Ronald Reagan | Reversed (April 1, 1985) |
| 1981 | Haiti's Duvalier government arrests and deports Radio Haiti-Inter staff, driving its director into exile | Haiti | Expulsion and visa denial | Jean-Claude Duvalier | Reversed (February 1, 1986) |
| August 16, 1971 | Nixon White House compiles an enemies list naming journalists for official pressure | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Richard Nixon | Reversed (June 27, 1973) |
| June 15, 1971 | United States government seeks an injunction to stop The New York Times publishing the Pentagon Papers | United States | Prior restraint | Richard Nixon | Reversed (June 30, 1971) |
| 1927 | United States Supreme Court strikes down a Minnesota law used to shut a newspaper | United States | Prior restraint | Theodore Christianson | Reversed (June 1, 1931) |
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