New Assange Charges Raise Two First Amendment Alarms
Gene Policinski is president and chief operating officer of the Freedom Forum Institute. He can be reached atgpolicinski@freedomforum.org, or...
Defending all of us by defending a free press
Gene Policinski is president and chief operating officer of the Freedom Forum Institute. He can be reached atgpolicinski@freedomforum.org, or follow...
On Campus Speech: Thanks, Mr. President — But No Thanks
Gene Policinski is president and chief operating officer of the Freedom Forum Institute. He can be reached at gpolicinski@freedomforum.org, or...
Student Journalism: More Needed Than Ever
In more communities today than ever, student publications are doing double-duty — reporting news of schools and surrounding communities — and doing both well.
As...
A Growing List: 2019 Threats to First Amendment Freedoms
First Amendment threats and defenses have, for much of the past 100 years, largely focused on protecting individual speech — the rights of any...
Time to Stand up for Journalists, for the Pursuit of Truth
Unlike most of Time magazine's "Person of the Year" designees since 1927, we can be certain none of those featured this year on that...
Making the Web, Social Media ‘Better’ Places — with Caution
We'd all like a "better" internet in terms of privacy, politeness, taste and safety. And who would oppose eliminating false or misleading information from...
‘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...
What’s the ‘true threat’ to American journalism and democracy?
Threats to the survival of a free press seem much in the air these days, from the near daily online insults hurled from the...
We Hate “False News” Even More Than We “Hate” On Social Media
We hate false information on social media even more than “hate speech” or personal attacks, says the 2018 State of the First Amendment survey released Thursday...