National Newspaper Week

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News Media Are the First and Most Effective Means for Exercising Our Five First Amendment Freedoms

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.

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Find Our Members from Coast to Coast

The Alliance represents more than 2,000 news publications across the globe, but the majority of our members are right here in the U.S. In fact, you can find member publications in almost all 50 states. Our members serve readers from the southernmost point of the country, in Florida, to the northernmost point, in Alaska, and clear across the country from east to west.

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