| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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 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 18, 2025 | Trump sues Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over Epstein birthday letter story | United States | Lawsuits against the press | Donald Trump | Ongoing |
| 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 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 3, 2025 | Journalists beaten in Bangladesh in separate incidents as interim government drafts new cyber laws | Bangladesh | Detention and violence | Muhammad Yunus | Ongoing |
| 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 29, 2025 | FCC chair reopens 'news distortion' complaints against CBS and NBC | United States | Funding and ownership pressure | Donald Trump | Ongoing |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| November 1, 2023 | Turkish authorities detain three journalists under 'disinformation' law | Türkiye | Insult and defamation laws | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Ongoing |
| June 14, 2023 | Guatemala convicts investigative journalist Jose Ruben Zamora on money-laundering charge | Guatemala | Detention and violence | Alejandro Giammattei | Ongoing |
| August 5, 2019 | India imposes a communications blackout in Jammu and Kashmir after revoking the region's special status | India | Shutdowns and blocking | Narendra Modi | Ongoing (August 5, 2020) |
| September 1, 2017 | Venezuela expels or denies entry to dozens of foreign journalists covering anti-government protests | Venezuela | Expulsion and visa denial | Nicolas Maduro | Ongoing (January 25, 2018) |
| September 18, 1988 | Burma's new military government tightens pre-publication press controls after seizing power | Myanmar | Prior restraint | Saw Maung | Ongoing (January 1, 1989) |
| May 24, 1960 | Egypt's Nasser government nationalizes every newspaper and magazine in the country | Egypt | Funding and ownership pressure | Gamal Abdel Nasser | Ongoing (January 1, 1989) |
| 1948 | Israel retains a British-era law giving the military the power to review and restrict the press | Israel | Prior restraint | David Ben-Gurion | Ongoing (January 1, 1989) |
| 1922 | Soviet Russia creates Glavlit, a central office to review all printed material before publication | Russia | Prior restraint | Vladimir Lenin | Ongoing (January 1, 1989) |