| September 18, 2026 | United States: White House hard-pass deactivations for CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters, September 2026 | United States | Access bans | Donald Trump | Ongoing (September 21, 2026) |
| August 4, 2026 | Russia: law on asset freezes and service denials for exiled "foreign agents", August 2026 | Russia | Official labels | Vladimir Putin | Sustained (August 4, 2026) |
| April 2026 | El Salvador: freeze on assets of shareholders in El Faro's parent company, February to April 2026 | El Salvador | Funding and ownership pressure | Nayib Bukele | Sustained (May 8, 2026) |
| February 10, 2026 | India: one-year prison sentence for the journalist Ravi Nair in a criminal defamation case, February 2026 | India | Insult and defamation laws | Narendra Modi | Unknown (February 10, 2026) |
| January 7, 2026 | Israel: ban on independent entry of foreign journalists into the Gaza Strip, 2023 to 2026 | Israel | Access bans | | Sustained (February 25, 2026) |
| December 15, 2025 | China (Hong Kong): conviction and 20-year sentence of the media owner Jimmy Lai under the National Security Law, 2025 to 2026 | Hong Kong | Detention and violence | John Lee | Sustained (February 8, 2026) |
| October 15, 2025 | United States: News organizations turn in their Pentagon press credentials, October 2025 | United States | Credential control | Donald Trump | Ongoing (April 9, 2026) |
| September 19, 2025 | United States: Department of Defense press credential rules requiring approval before release of information, September 2025 | United States | Credential control | Donald Trump | Ongoing (April 9, 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) |
| July 1, 2025 | United States: Paramount settlement of Donald Trump's lawsuit over a 60 Minutes interview, July 2025 | United States | Lawsuits against the press | Donald Trump | Sustained (July 1, 2025) |
| May 1, 2025 | United States: Executive Order 14290 directing an end to federal funding for NPR and PBS, May 2025 | United States | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Unknown |
| April 25, 2025 | United States: Department of Justice rescission of rules limiting subpoenas of journalists, April 2025 | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Donald Trump | Sustained (April 25, 2025) |
| March 19, 2025 | Türkiye: detention, injury and deportation of journalists covering protests, March 2025 | Türkiye | Detention and violence | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Unknown (April 2, 2025) |
| March 15, 2025 | United States: U.S. Agency for Global Media action to shut down Voice of America operations, March 2025 | United States | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Ongoing (March 28, 2025) |
| February 25, 2025 | United States: White House takes over selection of the presidential press pool, February 2025 | United States | Access bans | Donald Trump | Sustained (September 22, 2026) |
| February 11, 2025 | United States: White House exclusion of the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One, February 2025 | United States | Access bans | Donald Trump | Ongoing (July 22, 2025) |
| January 31, 2025 | United States (Louisiana): Federal court order blocking enforcement of the police buffer zone law, January 2025 | United States | Access bans | Jeff Landry | Ongoing (January 31, 2025) |
| January 1, 2025 | United States (Florida): Halo Law buffer zone around first responders, January 2025 | United States | Access bans | Ron DeSantis | Sustained (January 1, 2025) |
| May 24, 2024 | United States (Louisiana): 25-foot buffer zone law around police officers, May 2024 | United States | Access bans | Jeff Landry | Ongoing (January 31, 2025) |
| December 20, 2023 | Hungary: National Sovereignty Protection Act and Sovereignty Protection Office, December 2023 | Hungary | Official labels | Viktor Orban | Reversed (June 30, 2026) |
| 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 10, 2013 | United States: Espionage Act prosecutions of sources for leaks to the press, 2009 to 2013 | United States | Secrets and espionage laws | Barack Obama | Unknown |
| September 9, 1971 | United States: Nixon White House "enemies list" naming journalists, September 1971 | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Richard Nixon | Unknown |