On September 23, free-press advocates from the National Press Club Journalism Institute and Reporters Without Borders, along with more than 100 volunteers (including myself), canvassed Capitol Hill to ask legislators to support efforts to free American journalist Austin Tice, who has been held captive in Syria since 2012.
As we celebrate National Newspaper Week, we are raising awareness about our five First Amendment freedoms, as outlined in the U.S. Constitution — freedom of the press, speech, religion, petition and assembly — and the ways the news media help promote and protect those freedoms. Those five freedoms seem so basic, and we sometimes may take them for granted, but there are surprisingly few channels that allow us to exercise all five freely.
As part of Free Speech Week, we’re looking back at some of the biggest moments in the history of our First Amendment right to a free press and the impacts those moments had on the press as we know it today.
Senator Al Franken (D-MN) gave an important speech yesterday at the Open Markets Institute in Washington, D.C. The theme was
For Free Speech Week, I was going to write about the political climate in the US, but there is an even more egregious attack on the free press happening right now. On Oct. 10, Wall Street Journal staff reporter Ayla Albayrak was wrongly convicted of terrorism charges in Turkey.
Free Press Focus The Alliance has long advocated for First Amendment protections and for an open and transparent government. Journalists
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom
By MACAULEY VENORA, Public Policy Intern Those who are written about about in newspapers are not always pleased with the
Maine has enacted stronger anti-SLAPP protections after passing a statute based on the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act (UPEPA), a model statute that provides some of the strongest protections against meritless claims designed to chill free speech.
On September 7th, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law S.2802/A.4393, to provide anti-SLAPP protections against lawsuits known as SLAPPs (short for strategic lawsuits against public participation) designed to chill free speech.
