2020 Just Won’t Go Away When It Comes to First Amendment Issues in 2021
2020 is the challenging year that just won’t go away, however much we wish it would, as many current issues over First...
Humor, satire: Making the political ‘cut,’ from our earliest days
The 2020 election is no laughing matter — except that it is, in the great American tradition of humor and satire that...
NEFAC, MNPA and NENPA ask for transparency in Mass. Governor-Elect Maura Healey’s office
The New England First Amendment Coalition, Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association, and the New England Newspaper & Press Association called on Mass. Governor-Elect Maura Healey in a Dec. 19...
‘Getting It Right’ — on Kobe Bryant and Everything Else
Gene Policinski is president and chief operating officer of the Freedom Forum Institute. Email him at gpolicinski@freedomforum.org and follow him on Twitter...
We Once Went “MAD” for the Magazine — and It Was Fun and Funny
Gene Policinski is president and chief operating officer of the Freedom Forum Institute. He can be reached atgpolicinski@freedomforum.org, or follow...
‘Enemies of the people?’ Simply, plainly – ‘no.’
As plainly and clearly as one can say or write this:
Journalism and journalists are not "enemies of the people."
A free press brings us the...
Protecting Press Freedom: Introducing the NENPA First Amendment Collaborative
At our recent New England Newspaper Convention, a standing-room-only town hall session made one thing clear: the challenges facing the First Amendment, access to...
World Press Freedom Day 2025: Journalism at a Crossroads
Tomorrow, May 3, 2025, marks the 32nd annual World Press Freedom Day—a global observance established by the United Nations to celebrate the fundamental principles...
At long last, the stuff of journalism
Gene Policinski, inside the First Amendment
Gene Policinski is chief operating officer of the Newseum Institute and senior vice president of the Institute’s First Amendment Center....
We’re a big part of the fix for ‘junk news’
Gene Policinski
Inside the First Amendment
Gene Policinski is chief operating officer of the Newseum Institute and senior vice president of the Institute’s First Amendment Center....