Research
New Website Tracks Press Freedom Abuses in the U.S.
The Newseum Institute partnered with the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and others to launch the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.
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Newseum to Rededicate Its Journalists Memorial During June 5 Ceremony
The memorial will be updated with the names of 14 journalists who died in pursuit of the news in 2016.
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Hassling journalists damages our ‘watchdog on government’
Another incident of a journalist being “manhandled” at a federal office building should set off alarm bells across partisan lines.
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Attacking a free press: Actions speaker louder than heated words
Verbal assaults on the press are nothing new, and even expected. But when words cross over into action, everyone’s freedom is threatened.
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Freedom House and Newseum Unveil 2016 World Press Freedom Map
United States, Turkey, Russia and others on watch list for 2017.
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Free Speech Isn’t Always Valuable. That’s Not the Point.
We shouldn’t think about free expression in terms of value. What’s important is that free expression rights are indivisible.
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Newseum Co-Hosts Seminar on Press Freedom at the Swedish Embassy
The event marked the 250th anniversary of Sweden’s Freedom of the Press Act, which was the first in history.
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Paul Robert Cohen and “his” Famous Free-Speech Case
Paul Robert Cohen’s last name appears in one of the most important First Amendment free-speech cases in modern American history – in which a sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court strengthened free speech by protecting the right to engage in offensive expression.
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Democracy Behind Closed Doors: Overclassification and the First Amendment
Another in a continuing series of reports on First Amendment legal issues, from the Newseum Institute.
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Special Report: The implications of talent agent licensing
A lawsuit involving talent agent licensing in California has implications for the First Amendment’s commercial speech doctrine – and licensing in other professions.
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