Freedom of the Press Foundation
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| Abbreviation | FPF |
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| Formation | December 17, 2012 |
| Type | non-governmental organization |
| Purpose | freedom of the press and freedom of speech funding |
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Region served
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Global |
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Key people
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John Perry Barlow John Cusack Daniel Ellsberg Glenn Greenwald Xeni Jardin Laura Poitras Edward Snowden Trevor Timm Rainey Reitman |
| Affiliations | Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| Website |
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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’s board of directors is made up of well-known 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.
FPF is most famous for breaking the financial blockade and developing SecureDrop, the open-source whistleblower submission system originally created by Aaron Swartz.
FPF has also crowd-funded support for a variety of other transparency journalism organizations, as well as encryption tools used by journalists, including: , MuckRock, the National Security Archive, The UpTake, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the Center for Public Integrity, Truthout, the LEAP Encryption Access Project, Open Whisper Systems, Tails, and the Tor Project.
In May 2013, FPF raised over $100,000 online donations to hire a professional court stenographer to take transcripts during the trial of whistleblower Chelsea Manning after the government refused to make its transcripts available to the public. They posted the transcripts online at the end of each day of the trial for members of the media to use in their reports. Secrecy expert Steven Aftergood later called the crowd-funding effort "unprecedented," saying "it eloquently demonstrated public expectations of openness...the court and the prosecutors may have been shamed into reconsidering their habitual secrecy."
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