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Christine SchmidtDecember 5, 2018

Teens support the First Amendment but largely don’t trust traditional media (do they have reason to?)

Virtually half of high school teachers don’t trust traditional media either, but 72 percent of students say journalism “keep[s] leaders from doing things that shouldn’t be done.”

Laura Hazard OwenApril 27, 2018

Explainers are tedious. Fact-checks can feel partisan. Is there a third way?

Plus: Problems with the First Amendment, fact-checking the fact-checkers, and how partisan newspapers’ circulations change depending on who’s in power.

Three news outlets turned down the R. Kelly sex ‘cult’ investigation before BuzzFeed finally published it

Shan WangJuly 11, 2017

The freedom-of-speech institute suing @realDonaldTrump to unblock his critics on Twitter has its eye on other lawsuits, too

“Part of the reason we took this case on is that we have seen reports from across the country of public officials blocking their constituents on Twitter or Facebook.”

Knight and Columbia launch a $60M effort to advance freedom of expression in the digital age

Shan WangNovember 3, 2015

First Look’s Press Litigation Fund wants to support news outlets stuck in expensive free speech cases

“Our hope is that we’ll be able to help those folks who need financial support to be able to bring on these cases that are really important for the press.”

Monday Q&A: Thomas Patterson on why journalists need to up their knowledge game

“The news media have two bottom lines. One’s the fiscal bottom line — they have to make money to stay in business. The other one’s the civic bottom line.” Caroline O'Donovan

Mark CoddingtonMay 24, 2013

This Week in Review: Yahoo goes after Tumblr’s cool factor, and investigative reporting under fire

Plus: Snow Fall revisited, and the rest of the week’s media and tech reads.

Jillian StonecipherFebruary 25, 2013

A proposed Florida law targets mugshot sites, but hits journalists’ First Amendment rights

“Even staunch free speech advocates recognize that these mugshot companies are, at the very least, distasteful. But, of course, the First Amendment does not allow the government to regulate content simply because it is distasteful.”

Adrienne LaFranceJuly 31, 2012

By tweeting about a developing story, could you be inciting a riot?

And you thought Twitter suspending @GuyAdams was bad. Governments can do much worse.

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