Press Freedom
Surveilling journalists to discover their sources. Using the Espionage Act to prosecute whistleblowers for disclosing information to the press that the public should know. Arresting and attacking journalists reporting on social unrest. Criminalizing the kinds of activities that journalists engage in routinely and as a necessary part of their work. Serious threats, all, to the freedom of the press.
This blog channel highlights the Institute’s ongoing work to preserve and strengthen free press protections in the digital age.
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Deep Dive: The Future of Press Freedom: Scholars Series, Press Freedom
Political Tensions and the Democratic Press
Advocates for press freedom must confront the objectivity-subjectivity and institutionalism-populism divides.
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Institute Update: Press Freedom
An Introduction to Our Project: The Future of Press Freedom
A cross-disciplinary initiative to identify and protect the role of the press
By RonNell Andersen Jones & Sonja R. West -
Institute Update: Press Freedom
Call for Papers: New Voices in Press Freedom
The Knight Institute invites submissions from junior scholars exploring the news in changing times.
By RonNell Andersen Jones , Sonja R. West & Katy Glenn Bass -
Deep Dive: Press Freedom
First Step in Police Reform: Protect the First Amendment
Police should ensure that journalists and members of the public acting as newsgatherers are able to work without interference
By Joel Simon & Katy Glenn Bass
Research
Essays and Scholarship
Participatory Journalism and Its Potential in AI-Assisted Local News
The adoption of AI in local journalism should go hand in hand with implementing more equitable, civically focused, participatory forms of journalism
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Essay Series
Lawyering Without Law: The Legal Profession in an Age of Authoritarianism
A project studying the crucial role that lawyers can play in preserving democratic freedoms and institutions
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Essays and Scholarship
Surveilling Border Lawyering
Lawyers who serve migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border face surveillance and attempts to suppress their work by U.S. and Mexican government officials
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Podcast
"The Bully's Pulpit: Trump v. The First Amendment"
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