As the number of local journalists declines across the United States, state and local governments and officials are making it ...

The legal action centered on the “recruitment” clause, involving sharing information about how to obtain abortions legally in ...

On Sept. 19, President Donald Trump barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. This event emphasizes what’s now becoming an unprecedented and shocking discussion — the growing threat ...

When two popular science magazines – out of about 17 in circulation – ceased publication in the same year, one commentator said, “The science magazines didn’t shake out. They fell apart.” The general ...

The U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term today, Oct. 5. One of the cases that the justices have agreed to hear is a First Amendment religious-liberty case, St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy. The case ...

The press pool is a proxy for the wider fight over whether the president, or anyone, can control the content of news reports ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether the decision of the White House television press ...

Corporate speech refers to the rights of corporations to advertise their products and to speak to matters of public concern. Commercial speech, as manifested through advertising, and political speech ...

provisions in the Bill of Rights protecting people’s liberties. One way of suppressing speech is to arrest individuals who have expressed unpopular views. In Gonzalez v. Trevino, the Supreme Court ...

The words are plain, blunt and unequivocal — without literary frill or poetic flourish — a directive intended to put the natural rights of citizens above and beyond the punitive power of the new ...

Since 2021, state laws that lead to book challenges and bans in K-12 schools have proliferated. In total, PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans from July 2021 to June 2023 found 5,894 book bans ...

Although advertising revenue largely sustained the news media in the 20th century, it’s been harder to come by in the digital age. News-media outlets just aren’t as important these days for ...