| 18 September 2026 | United States: White House hard-pass deactivations for CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters, September 2026 | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Access bans | Donald Trump | Ongoing (21 September 2026) |
| 20 August 2026 | Kazakhstan: fabricated copyright complaints used against journalists | Kazakhstan (RSF rank: not recorded) | Lawsuits against the press | Kassym-Jomart Tokayev | Ongoing (20 August 2026) |
| 4 August 2026 | Russia: law on asset freezes and service denials for exiled "foreign agents", August 2026 | Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180) | Official labels | Vladimir Putin | Sustained (4 August 2026) |
| 10 July 2026 | Customs officers seize Grayzone editor's phones at Virginia airport over Iran reporting | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Surveillance and subpoenas | Donald Trump | Reversed (17 July 2026) |
| 28 April 2026 | Appeals court orders FCC to respond to challenge over 'news distortion' policy | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Ongoing (28 April 2026) |
| April 2026 | El Salvador: freeze on assets of shareholders in El Faro's parent company, February to April 2026 | El Salvador (RSF 2026 rank: 143rd of 180) | Funding and ownership pressure | Nayib Bukele | Sustained (8 May 2026) |
| 10 February 2026 | India: one-year prison sentence for the journalist Ravi Nair in a criminal defamation case, February 2026 | India (RSF 2026 rank: 157th of 180) | Insult and defamation laws | Narendra Modi | Unknown (10 February 2026) |
| 7 January 2026 | Israel: ban on independent entry of foreign journalists into the Gaza Strip, 2023 to 2026 | Israel (RSF 2026 rank: 116th of 180) | Access bans | | Sustained (25 February 2026) |
| 31 October 2025 | White House closes 'Upper Press' section of West Wing to reporters | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Access bans | Donald Trump | Sustained |
| 29 October 2025 | Tanzania shuts down internet access on election day amid unrest | Tanzania (RSF 2026 rank: 117th of 180) | Shutdowns and blocking | Samia Suluhu Hassan | Unknown |
| 15 October 2025 | United States: News organizations turn in their Pentagon press credentials, October 2025 | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Credential control | Donald Trump | Ongoing (9 April 2026) |
| 19 September 2025 | United States: Department of Defense press credential rules requiring approval before release of information, September 2025 | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Credential control | Donald Trump | Ongoing (9 April 2026) |
| 17 September 2025 | United States: Federal Communications Commission chairman's remarks and the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, September 2025 | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Reversed (23 September 2025) |
| 15 September 2025 | Trump files, then refiles, $15 billion defamation suit against the New York Times | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Lawsuits against the press | Donald Trump | Ongoing (16 October 2025) |
| 5 September 2025 | Serbian police strike, detain and disarm journalists covering anti-government protests | Serbia (RSF 2026 rank: 104th of 180) | Detention and violence | Aleksandar Vucic | Ongoing |
| 3 September 2025 | Ethiopia arrests at least six journalists including Sheger FM staff over election-year coverage | Ethiopia (RSF 2026 rank: 148th of 180) | Detention and violence | Abiy Ahmed | Ongoing (22 September 2025) |
| 24 July 2025 | FCC approves Paramount-Skydance merger after CBS ombudsman and anti-DEI pledges | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Sustained (24 July 2025) |
| 18 July 2025 | Trump sues Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over Epstein birthday letter story | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Lawsuits against the press | Donald Trump | Ongoing |
| 18 July 2025 | Congress cuts $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Sustained (24 July 2025) |
| 1 July 2025 | United States: Paramount settlement of Donald Trump's lawsuit over a 60 Minutes interview, July 2025 | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Lawsuits against the press | Donald Trump | Sustained (1 July 2025) |
| 1 May 2025 | United States: Executive Order 14290 directing an end to federal funding for NPR and PBS, May 2025 | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Unknown |
| 25 April 2025 | United States: Department of Justice rescission of rules limiting subpoenas of journalists, April 2025 | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Surveillance and subpoenas | Donald Trump | Sustained (25 April 2025) |
| 22 April 2025 | 60 Minutes executive producer resigns, citing lost editorial independence | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Sustained (22 April 2025) |
| 15 April 2025 | White House ends wire services' guaranteed seat in the press pool | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Access bans | Donald Trump | Sustained |
| 19 March 2025 | Türkiye: detention, injury and deportation of journalists covering protests, March 2025 | Türkiye (RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180) | Detention and violence | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Unknown (2 April 2025) |
| 15 March 2025 | United States: U.S. Agency for Global Media action to shut down Voice of America operations, March 2025 | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Ongoing (28 March 2025) |
| 25 February 2025 | United States: White House takes over selection of the presidential press pool, February 2025 | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Access bans | Donald Trump | Sustained (22 September 2026) |
| 11 February 2025 | United States: White House exclusion of the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One, February 2025 | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Access bans | Donald Trump | Ongoing (22 July 2025) |
| 6 February 2025 | Border czar Tom Homan says ICE media ride-alongs may end over leaks | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Access bans | Donald Trump | Unknown |
| 3 February 2025 | Journalists beaten in Bangladesh in separate incidents as interim government drafts new cyber laws | Bangladesh (RSF 2026 rank: 152nd of 180) | Detention and violence | Muhammad Yunus | Ongoing |
| 29 January 2025 | Pakistan amends cybercrime law to create new agency policing 'fake' online content | Pakistan (RSF 2026 rank: 153rd of 180) | Official labels | Shehbaz Sharif | Sustained |
| 22 January 2025 | FCC chair reopens 'news distortion' complaints against CBS and NBC | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Ongoing |
| 16 January 2025 | Tunisia's cybercrime decree pushes jailed-journalist count to highest since 1992 | Tunisia (RSF 2026 rank: 137th of 180) | Insult and defamation laws | Kais Saied | Sustained |
| 16 December 2024 | Trump sues Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer over final Iowa poll | United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180) | Lawsuits against the press | Donald Trump | Ongoing (10 July 2026) |
| November 2024 | China: editor Dong Yuyu is sentenced to seven years for espionage over meals with a diplomat | China (RSF 2026 rank: 178th of 180) | Secrets and espionage laws | Xi Jinping | Ongoing (1 November 2024) |
| 29 August 2024 | Hong Kong court convicts Stand News editors of sedition | Hong Kong (RSF 2026 rank: 140th of 180) | Insult and defamation laws | John Lee | Upheld by a court (26 September 2024) |
| 20 August 2024 | Kazakhstan: new accreditation rules let officials withdraw a journalist's pass for off-topic questions | Kazakhstan (RSF rank: not recorded) | Credential control | Kassym-Jomart Tokayev | Ongoing (3 September 2024) |
| 28 July 2024 | Venezuela detains, expels and restricts journalists after disputed 2024 election | Venezuela (RSF 2026 rank: 159th of 180) | Detention and violence | Nicolas Maduro | Sustained |
| 20 June 2024 | Slovakia's parliament dissolves public broadcaster RTVS, replaces it with STVR | Slovakia (RSF 2026 rank: 37th of 180) | Licensing and closure of outlets | Robert Fico | Sustained (1 July 2024) |
| 28 May 2024 | Georgia enacts 'foreign influence' law requiring media to register as foreign-backed | Georgia (RSF 2026 rank: 135th of 180) | Official labels | Irakli Kobakhidze | Sustained |
| 4 March 2024 | Milei's government shuts down Argentina's state news agency Telam | Argentina (RSF 2026 rank: 98th of 180) | Funding and ownership pressure | Javier Milei | Sustained |
| March 2024 | Bombay High Court strikes down India's government 'fact check unit' rule | India (RSF 2026 rank: 157th of 180) | Official labels | Narendra Modi | Reversed (20 September 2024) |
| 17 January 2024 | Iran: journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi are sentenced to 13 and 12 years | Iran (RSF 2026 rank: 177th of 180) | Secrets and espionage laws | Ebrahim Raisi | Ongoing (17 January 2024) |
| 20 December 2023 | Hungary: National Sovereignty Protection Act and Sovereignty Protection Office, December 2023 | Hungary (RSF 2026 rank: 74th of 180) | Official labels | Viktor Orban | Reversed (30 June 2026) |
| 1 November 2023 | Turkish authorities detain three journalists under 'disinformation' law | Türkiye (RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180) | Insult and defamation laws | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Ongoing |
| 21 August 2023 | India: Gaon Savera's Facebook and X accounts blocked | India (RSF 2026 rank: 157th of 180) | Shutdowns and blocking | Narendra Modi | Unknown |
| 14 July 2023 | Zimbabwe's Patriotic Act criminalizes journalists' contact with foreign governments | Zimbabwe (RSF 2026 rank: 124th of 180) | Secrets and espionage laws | Emmerson Mnangagwa | Sustained (14 July 2023) |
| 14 June 2023 | Guatemala convicts investigative journalist Jose Ruben Zamora on money-laundering charge | Guatemala (RSF 2026 rank: 128th of 180) | Detention and violence | Alejandro Giammattei | Ongoing |
| 29 March 2023 | Russia: Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich sentenced to 16 years | Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180) | Detention and violence | Vladimir Putin | Reversed (1 August 2024) |
| 22 February 2023 | Turkiye: the broadcast regulator fines and suspends channels for earthquake coverage | Türkiye (RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180) | Prior restraint | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Sustained (22 February 2023) |