Future of Press Freedom
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Essays and Scholarship
Recursive Press Freedom as the Capacity to Control and Learn From Mistakes
Toward a self-constituting, self-aware, self-monitoring, and self-correcting synthetic press in an era of generative artificial intelligence
By Mike Ananny -
Essays and Scholarship
From Bloggers in Pajamas to the Gateway Pundit
How government entities do and should identify professional journalists for access and protection
By Richard L. Hasen -
Essays and Scholarship
Innovation Policy and the Press
A survey of policy possibilities that could protect and sustain local news
By Christina Koningisor & Jacob Noti-Victor -
Essays and Scholarship
Distorting the Press
An exploration of First Amendment tools that protect publicly subsidized journalism against state capture
By Heidi Kitrosser -
Essays and Scholarship
The Future of Press Freedom
An introduction to "The Future of Press Freedom," a project featuring contributions from nearly 30 of the nation’s leading legal and media studies scholars
By RonNell Andersen Jones & Sonja R. West -
Essays and Scholarship
Legal Foundations for Non-Reformist Media Reforms
A positive-rights paradigm for guaranteeing a universal press system
By Victor Pickard -
Essays and Scholarship
Policing Press Freedom
A discussion of the limitations of press exceptionalism
By Hannah Bloch-Wehba -
Essays and Scholarship
Reconstructing the First Amendment: Teaching Disenfranchised Perspectives on Press Freedom
A case for a reparative journalism approach to teaching the First Amendment and press freedom
By Meredith D. Clark -
Essays and Scholarship
The Other Press Clauses
State-level press protections could supplement the First Amendment's Press Clause
By Christina Koningisor -
Deep Dive
Post-Newspaper Democracy and the Rise of Communicative Citizenship: The Good Citizen as Good Communicator
People, in addition to the media, should facilitate the flow of reliable civic information.
By Nik Usher -
Deep Dive
Fitting a Square Peg into a Round Hole: Why Traditional Free Press Doctrines Fail in Dealing With Newer Media
There are areas of social media and the internet wherein existing First Amendment doctrine is likely to fail.
By Erwin Chemerinsky -
Deep Dive
The Constitutional Exceptionalism of Religion & the Press
Protecting the press as an exceptional democratic institution
By Amanda Shanor -
Deep Dive
Journalism and Academia: Knowledge Institutions Buttressing Constitutional Democracy
By Vicki C. JacksonAn analysis of two different knowledge institutions that serve democracies
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Deep Dive
What Journalists “Know” About Our Free Press That Just Ain’t So
Journalists today share a nostalgia for a past that never was.
By Michael Schudson -
Deep Dive
Are We Saving the News?
An analysis of the decline in local news sources and recommendations for reform
By Martha Minow -
Deep Dive
Press Benefits and the Public Imagination
Rethinking rhetoric about the value of the press
By Erin Carroll -
Deep Dive
Returning FOIA to the Press
A case for structural reforms to restore FOIA's value to journalists
By Margaret Kwoka -
Deep Dive
The Long Shadow of Food Lion
A Fourth Circuit case has deterred undercover investigative journalism nationwide.
By Alan K. Chen