Search: credential control
9 incidents match this view.
| Date | Incident | Country | Tactic | Head of government | Outcome |
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| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| March 17, 2020 | China expels American journalists from three major U.S. newspapers | China | Expulsion and visa denial | Xi Jinping | Sustained |
| 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) |
| April 1938 | Franco's Spain requires state permission to be a journalist under a wartime Press Law | Spain | Credential control | Francisco Franco | Reversed (April 1, 1977) |
| October 4, 1933 | Nazi Germany's Editors Law bars Jewish journalists from the press and puts editors under state direction | Germany | Credential control | Adolf Hitler | Reversed (May 8, 1945) |
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