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.