Katy Glenn Bass
Katy Glenn Bass is the research director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. She is responsible for conceptualizing and executing all of the Institute’s research initiatives, including the production of scholarship and research materials, the organization of conferences and symposia, and the Institute’s Visiting Research Scholars program.
Glenn Bass has organized five major symposia in partnership with the Institute’s visiting scholars. These include “Optimizing for What? Algorithmic Amplification and Society,” “Lies, Free Speech, and the Law,” and “Data and Democracy.” The research program’s events bring together scholars and experts in law, computer science, economics, information studies, journalism, political science, philosophy, and other disciplines. To date, the research program’s efforts have produced more than 60 original essays reflecting on the intersection of public and private power, the shaping of online public discourse, and the protection of the right to self-government in the internet age.
Prior to joining the Institute, Glenn Bass worked at PEN America, where she supervised the production of reports analyzing free expression issues, including the lack of protections for national security whistleblowers, attacks on journalists covering the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri, the impact of mass surveillance on online speech, and other topics. She has also taught at NYU Law’s Center for Constitutional Transitions and at the Walter Leitner International Human Rights Clinic at Fordham Law School. She holds a B.A. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she received the Kaufman Pro Bono Service Award.
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Institute Update
Call for Participation: "Regardless of Frontiers: The First Amendment and the Exchange of Ideas Across Borders"
Symposium to be held at Columbia University and online on October 18, 2024
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Institute Update
Knight Institute Symposium on Government Employee Speech to Feature Leading Scholars in Law, History, and Political Science
Public event to be held on April 5, 2024, at Columbia University and online
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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.
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Institute Update : Jawboning
Knight Institute Announces Scholars, Litigators, and Tech Policy Experts Who Will Participate in Initiative on Jawboning and the First Amendment
On Friday, October 20, the Knight Institute will host a closed convening at Columbia University to explore the question of jawboning.
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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
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Deep Dive : Lies and the Law
Past as Prologue: Lies in Historical Context
Institute publishes second set of essays from “Lies, Free Speech, and the Law” symposium
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Institute Update : Algorithmic Amplification and Society
Call for Participation: Optimizing for What? Algorithmic Amplification and Society
The Knight Institute invites submissions for its spring symposium, April 27-28, 2023, at Columbia University
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Deep Dive : Lies and the Law
Knight Institute Publishes First Essays from “Lies, Free Speech, and the Law” Symposium
Authors look at legal status of different categories of false speech in public discourse
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Institute Update : Lies and the Law
Knight Institute Symposium on “Lies, Free Speech, and the Law” to Feature Scholars in Law, Social Science, History, and Technology
Public event to be held April 8, 2022, at Columbia University, and online
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Deep Dive : Lies and the Law
New Research Project Focuses on Lies and the Law
How does (or should) the law shape the regulation of lies, disinformation, and misinformation in the digital age
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Institute Update : Lies and the Law
Call for Papers: Lies, Free Speech, and the Law
The Knight Institute invites submissions for its spring symposium, “Lies, Free Speech, and the Law” to be held at Columbia Law School, on April 7-8, 2022. The symposium will explore how the law regulates, or should regulate, false and misleading...
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Deep Dive
Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’ Faces Its First Major Test
The questions are bigger than whether Trump should have been suspended
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Podcast
The Perilous Public Square: An Essay Collection
Four essay authors reflect on current free expression events in new interviews
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Institute Update
Leading Legal Scholars and Technologists to Contribute to “Data and Democracy” Symposium
Symposium will take place online, October 15-16, 2020
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Institute Update
Announcing the Knight Institute’s Occasional Papers Series
Institute launches a new series with an essay by Jack Balkin
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Institute Update
New Essay Series: The Tech Giants, Monopoly Power, and Public Discourse
Addressing the tech giants' control over a wide range of economic and expressive activity
By Katy Glenn Bass