| 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 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) |
| February 3, 2025 | Journalists beaten in Bangladesh in separate incidents as interim government drafts new cyber laws | Bangladesh | Detention and violence | Muhammad Yunus | Ongoing |
| August 11, 2023 | Police raid Marion County Record newsroom and publisher's home in Kansas | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Laura Kelly | Reversed (August 5, 2024) |
| February 14, 2023 | Indian tax authorities search BBC offices weeks after Modi documentary ban | India | Surveillance and subpoenas | Narendra Modi | Unknown |
| 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) |
| April 15, 2020 | Australia's High Court invalidates warrant for raid on journalist Annika Smethurst | Australia | Surveillance and subpoenas | Scott Morrison | Reversed (May 27, 2020) |
| June 5, 2019 | Australian Federal Police raid the national broadcaster over reporting on alleged war crimes in Afghanistan | Australia | Surveillance and subpoenas | Scott Morrison | Reversed (October 15, 2020) |
| October 17, 2014 | United States pursues New York Times reporter James Risen's testimony for years before dropping its demand for his source | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Barack Obama | Reversed (October 17, 2014) |
| 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 |
| August 18, 2013 | United Kingdom detains journalist's partner under terrorism law and oversees destruction of Guardian hard drives holding Snowden files | United Kingdom | Surveillance and subpoenas | David Cameron | Upheld by a court (January 19, 2016) |
| May 20, 2013 | United States search warrant names Fox News reporter James Rosen a possible co-conspirator in a leak case | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Barack Obama | Sustained (July 12, 2013) |
| May 13, 2013 | United States Justice Department secretly seizes two months of Associated Press phone records | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Barack Obama | Sustained (July 12, 2013) |
| July 6, 2005 | New York Times reporter Judith Miller jailed for refusing to name a confidential source in the Valerie Plame affair | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | George W. Bush | Upheld by a court (September 29, 2005) |
| September 20, 1998 | Malaysia pressures domestic media and monitors foreign correspondents after arresting former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim | Malaysia | Surveillance and subpoenas | Mahathir Mohamad | Unknown |
| September 9, 1971 | United States: Nixon White House "enemies list" naming journalists, September 1971 | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Richard Nixon | Unknown |
| August 16, 1971 | Nixon White House compiles an enemies list naming journalists for official pressure | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Richard Nixon | Reversed (June 27, 1973) |
| 1969 | United States Supreme Court rules reporters have no privilege to refuse grand jury subpoenas | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Richard Nixon | Upheld by a court (June 29, 1972) |
| November 1955 | United States Senate panel subpoenas dozens of New York Times journalists over Communist ties | United States | Surveillance and subpoenas | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Sustained (December 1, 1956) |