Freedom of the Press Foundation

Not to be confused with Foundation for Press Freedom.
For other uses of "Freedom of the Press", see Freedom of the press (disambiguation).
Freedom of the Press Foundation
AbbreviationFPF
FormationDecember 17, 2012; 11 years ago (2012-12-17)
TypeNon-governmental organization
PurposeFreedom of the press and Freedom of speech funding
Region served
Global
Key people
AffiliationsElectronic Frontier Foundation[1]
Revenue (2015)
$2,535,636[2]
Expenses (2015)$1,211,073[2]
Websitefreedom.press

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) is a non-profit organization founded in 2012 to fund and support free speech and freedom of the press. The organization originally managed crowd-funding campaigns for independent journalistic organizations, but now pursues technical projects to support journalists' digital security and conducts legal advocacy for journalists.

The foundation's SecureDrop platform aims to allow confidential and secure communication between journalists and their sources, and has been adopted by more than 65 news organizations globally.[3] It also manages the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, a database of press freedom violations in the United States.[4]

The organization's board of directors has included prominent journalists and whistleblowers such as Daniel Ellsberg, Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, and Xeni Jardin, as well as activists, celebrities, and filmmakers. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden joined FPF's board of directors in 2014[5] and began serving as its president in early 2016.[6] Jardin left the board in 2016.[7]

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  2. ^ a b "Freedom of the Press Foundation" (PDF). Foundation Center. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
  3. ^ Henrichson, Jennifer R. (April 30, 2020). "The Rise of the Security Champion: Beta-testing Newsroom Security Cultures". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved November 3, 2020.
  4. ^ Feinberg, Ashley (August 2, 2017). "The US Press Freedom Tracker Follows Abuses of Journalists To Help Stop Them". Wired. Retrieved November 3, 2020.
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  6. ^ Greenberg, Andy (February 2017). "Edward Snowden's New Job: Protecting Reporters From Spies". Wired.
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