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Suggested updates

Hi folks! I am on the organization's staff, so I would prefer to avoid making direct edits to this article, but I just wanted to note a few things that could be updated:

• The article lead says that Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) runs crowdfunding campaigns. With the rise of third party crowfunding platforms, FPF has not run such campaigns for years, so I would treat this as purely a historical fact (note that the FPF website used to refer to these campaigns prominently, but no longer does). Instead, FPF focuses on developing, deploying and supporting SecureDrop (now in more than 70 news orgs worldwide), digital security trainings for journalists (thousands trained in the past three years), and running the US Press Freedom Tracker to systematically track press freedom violations in the United States (see below).
• SecureDrop is no longer used by the New Yorker, and Gawker no longer exists (but Gizmodo uses it still). However, as mentioned, there are now more 70 media orgs worldwide that use SecureDrop. Additional orgs that now use SecureDrop include The New York Times and NBC News. [1] [2] If you are looking for more recent quotes about the usefulness of SecureDrop inside news orgs, since the Columbia study cited is now several years old, you can pull from this interview with the Guardian's Head of Investigations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mI3uQnXPdM&t=437s
• In 2017, FPF, in partnership with several other press freedom orgs, launched the US Press Freedom Tracker. [3] [4] It is widely cited as the authoritative source to monitor press freedom violations in the United States (see Google News search for some examples). FPF manages the project's day-to-day operations.
• Under "Key people" in the infobox it still lists Xeni Jardin (who left the Board in 2016, as the article notes) and John Perry Barlow, who died in 2018. If that list is intended to reflect current key people associated with the org, I would suggest removing those names.

Let me know if more sources on any of the above would be helpful. Thanks :-) --Eloquence* 21:33, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Eloquence, thanks for those suggestions! I've made some updates to the page—it's still in fairly rough shape, but it should hopefully be a little better now. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 22:12, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Eloquence, The "Key people" doesn't have to be up-to-date. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:17, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Koavf, I looked at the {{Infobox organization}} doc, and it doesn't specify, but I could see arguments either way. I think it'd be better to list specific positions (e.g. director, board pres., etc.) than just a generic "key people". The fact that Snowden is (from what I've heard) actually involved in operations rather than just a figurehead is also something we should communicate somehow. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 23:09, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Sdkb, Yeah, this is just a weakness of infoboxes where information doesn't have much context. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:37, 3 November 2020 (UTC)