US specific and not sure for how much longer, but the courts have generally held that you can’t be forced to give up a password to a phone. It’s covered under the 5th (and 4th) amendments. That being said, most stock phones are vulnerable to cellubrite cracks.

I think academia is entirely different from news. This is research often funded with public money where the article fees aren’t going to the author. Seems a lot more reasonable to demand that the public should be able to read it for free.