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Courage supports every element in the information chain in the process of making news, from source, to reporter, to publisher.

In the last two decades, the ‘war on whistleblowers’, with dozens of Espionage Act prosecutions and prison sentences for leakers since the Obama Administration, has escalated into a full-blown war on journalism, with President Trump indicting Julian Assange in an attempt to secure the first conviction of a journalist for publishing truthful information in modern U.S. history.

The result is a chilling effect, on both reporters and their sources, who reasonably fear decades in prison for speaking up. Journalists need legal protection, support networks, and to know that we’ll have their back when they publish information that challenges the powerful.