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Defending press freedom for the next generation

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: We are actively reporting on multiple attacks against journalists covering protests in LA — including assaults, equipment damage, and other press freedom violations.

Texas is about to ban talking on college campuses at night. Seriously. Read the rest of this op-ed by Jimena Pinzon and FPF's Caitlin Vogus: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/texas-ban-universities-speech-talking-night-20361753.php

Local officials can disagree with a newspaper's coverage, but they have no right to retaliate. “It’s very much unconstitutional for the government to in any way punish the press over its editorial or content decisions,” Seth Stern told the Phoenix New Times.

Phoenix New Times

Fountain Hills officials punished a paper for coverage they don't like

Right-wing town officials decided to remove a table for the local paper in a Trumpian retaliation over negative coverage.

Public employees have a right to speak to the press. The government can't gag them and certainly can't force them to mislabel verifiable facts as their opinions. Greene County, VA, needed a reminder of these First Amendment basics, so FPF, SPJ, and numerous other press rights organizations gave them one.

Freedom of the Press

Rights organizations object to ‘entirely absurd’ Virginia gag policy

Policy purports to grant county board chair a monopoly on facts