Columbia has a journalism school, a First Amendment institute, and a journalism magazine. But instead of listening to any of them before investigating an op-ed writer, Columbia's administrators took their cues from Trump and their own cowardly hearts. Shame on them.
AP News
Facing Trump's threats, Columbia investigates students critical of Israel
A new disciplinary committee is raising alarm among students, faculty and free speech advocates, who accuse the school of bowing to President Trump...
Stories like this show how FOIA is critical for scrutinizing government activities, and why reductions in force at FOIA offices (OMB's FOIA staff down 75%, for example) should be a top news story. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/03/07/trump-water-release-california-fires/
Imagine a world where only sycophants can question the President, and any journalists who dare to ask hard questions get kicked out of the room. That’s the path American is on.
The Atlantic
Why It Matters Who Asks the Questions
When the White House handpicks reporters to cover the president, the American public suffers.
"We have no evidence that this student did anything other than cover this event as a journalist." We're glad charges were dropped against the Stanford journalist unjustly arrested, but this also should have been blindingly obvious from the beginning.
Columbia Journalism Review
Prosecutors drop case against Stanford student journalist.
Dilan Gohill was arrested while covering protests on campus last summer.
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"It’s all going to the library." No, it's not. The millions are going to a private foundation that can do whatever it wants. The foundation could build a library — but it doesn't have to. Presidential libraries shouldn't be fronts for bribes.
WIRED
People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Business leaders are paying as much as $5 million to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others a...
Imagine a world where only sycophants can question the President, and any journalists who dare to ask hard questions get kicked out of the room. That’s the path American is on.
The Atlantic
Why It Matters Who Asks the Questions
When the White House handpicks reporters to cover the president, the American public suffers.
"A press that is handpicked by the government is just not a free press." Watch Seth Stern, director of advocacy for Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) on DW News explain why the White House overhaul of the press pool will diminish press freedom by using access as a weapon.
Agency watchdogs shouldn’t be bullied into keeping secrets. USAID’s acting inspector general should release the reports while it has the power to do so — or the public might never see them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/27/usaid-trump-gaza-aid-probe/
Trump "wants news outlets to be dependent on his whims and favors so he can dictate coverage," Seth Stern tells DW News. "It allows the White House to dangle access over journalists' heads and punish those who don't toe the line."