| 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) |
| 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) |
| April 28, 2026 | Appeals court orders FCC to respond to challenge over 'news distortion' policy | United States | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Ongoing (April 28, 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) |
| October 31, 2025 | White House closes 'Upper Press' section of West Wing to reporters | United States | Access bans | Donald Trump | Sustained |
| October 29, 2025 | Tanzania shuts down internet access on election day amid unrest | Tanzania | Shutdowns and blocking | Samia Suluhu Hassan | Unknown |
| 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) |
| September 16, 2025 | Trump files, then refiles, $15 billion defamation suit against the New York Times | United States | Lawsuits against the press | Donald Trump | Ongoing (October 16, 2025) |
| September 5, 2025 | Serbian police strike, detain and disarm journalists covering anti-government protests | Serbia | Detention and violence | Aleksandar Vucic | Ongoing |
| September 3, 2025 | Ethiopia arrests at least six journalists including Sheger FM staff over election-year coverage | Ethiopia | Detention and violence | Abiy Ahmed | Ongoing (September 22, 2025) |
| July 24, 2025 | FCC approves Paramount-Skydance merger after CBS ombudsman and anti-DEI pledges | United States | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Sustained (July 24, 2025) |
| July 18, 2025 | Trump sues Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over Epstein birthday letter story | United States | Lawsuits against the press | Donald Trump | Ongoing |
| July 18, 2025 | Congress cuts $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting | United States | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Sustained (July 18, 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) |
| April 22, 2025 | 60 Minutes executive producer resigns, citing lost editorial independence | United States | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Sustained (April 22, 2025) |
| April 15, 2025 | White House ends wire services' guaranteed seat in the press pool | United States | Access bans | Donald Trump | Sustained |
| 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) |
| February 6, 2025 | Border czar Tom Homan says ICE media ride-alongs may end over leaks | United States | Access bans | Donald Trump | Unknown |
| February 3, 2025 | Journalists beaten in Bangladesh in separate incidents as interim government drafts new cyber laws | Bangladesh | Detention and violence | Muhammad Yunus | Ongoing |
| January 29, 2025 | Pakistan amends cybercrime law to create new agency policing 'fake' online content | Pakistan | Official labels | Shehbaz Sharif | Sustained |
| January 29, 2025 | FCC chair reopens 'news distortion' complaints against CBS and NBC | United States | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Ongoing |
| January 16, 2025 | Tunisia's cybercrime decree pushes jailed-journalist count to highest since 1992 | Tunisia | Insult and defamation laws | Kais Saied | Sustained |
| December 16, 2024 | Trump sues Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer over final Iowa poll | United States | Lawsuits against the press | Donald Trump | Ongoing (July 10, 2026) |
| August 29, 2024 | Hong Kong court convicts Stand News editors of sedition | Hong Kong | Insult and defamation laws | John Lee | Upheld by a court (September 26, 2024) |
| July 28, 2024 | Venezuela detains, expels and restricts journalists after disputed 2024 election | Venezuela | Detention and violence | Nicolas Maduro | Sustained |
| June 20, 2024 | Slovakia's parliament dissolves public broadcaster RTVS, replaces it with STVR | Slovakia | Licensing and closure of outlets | Robert Fico | Sustained (July 4, 2024) |
| May 28, 2024 | Georgia enacts 'foreign influence' law requiring media to register as foreign-backed | Georgia | Official labels | Irakli Kobakhidze | Sustained |
| March 4, 2024 | Milei's government shuts down Argentina's state news agency Telam | Argentina | Funding and ownership pressure | Javier Milei | Sustained |
| March 2024 | Bombay High Court strikes down India's government 'fact check unit' rule | India | Official labels | Narendra Modi | Reversed (September 20, 2024) |
| December 20, 2023 | Hungary: National Sovereignty Protection Act and Sovereignty Protection Office, December 2023 | Hungary | Official labels | Viktor Orban | Reversed (June 30, 2026) |
| November 1, 2023 | Turkish authorities detain three journalists under 'disinformation' law | Türkiye | Insult and defamation laws | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Ongoing |
| July 14, 2023 | Zimbabwe's Patriotic Act criminalizes journalists' contact with foreign governments | Zimbabwe | Secrets and espionage laws | Emmerson Mnangagwa | Sustained (July 14, 2023) |
| June 14, 2023 | Guatemala convicts investigative journalist Jose Ruben Zamora on money-laundering charge | Guatemala | Detention and violence | Alejandro Giammattei | Ongoing |
| February 16, 2023 | Nicaragua strips 94 political opponents, including journalists, of citizenship | Nicaragua | Expulsion and visa denial | Daniel Ortega | Sustained |
| February 14, 2023 | Indian tax authorities search BBC offices weeks after Modi documentary ban | India | Surveillance and subpoenas | Narendra Modi | Unknown |
| March 4, 2022 | Russia criminalizes 'fake' reporting on the military, up to 15 years in prison | Russia | Insult and defamation laws | Vladimir Putin | Sustained |
| November 6, 2021 | FBI raids Project Veritas founder's home over Ashley Biden diary investigation | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Joe Biden | Unknown |
| July 19, 2021 | Justice Department bars seizing reporters' phone and email records | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Joe Biden | Reversed (April 25, 2025) |
| May 19, 2021 | Belarus blocks Tut.by and arrests its editors as 'extremist' | Belarus | Shutdowns and blocking | Alexander Lukashenko | Sustained |
| March 8, 2021 | Myanmar junta revokes five outlets' licenses and raids newsrooms after coup | Myanmar | Licensing and closure of outlets | Min Aung Hlaing | Sustained |