Mahanoy Area High School student Brandi Levy wins Supreme Court case after a profanity-laced post on Snapchat at a local convenience store
Right for US students to speak freely off campus upheld
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CATEGORY: United States
Pentagon Papers: Daniel Ellsberg speaks 50 years on
It is five decades since a government whistleblower leaked a 7,000-page report into US involvement in Vietnam
Anti-Ha: an exclusive short story by Shalom Auslander
The American author talks about laughter and the power to subvert
George Floyd: what has changed one year on?
It is 12 months since police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for nine and a half minutes leading to his death and sparking protests around the world
Contents – China’s global brand: a century of silencing dissent
Index looks back on 100 years of the Chinese Communist Party and how their censorship laws continue to shape the lives of people around the world...
The right to speak out depends on the right to breathe
Freedom of expression relies on the right to walk the streets where you live in safety and security
Student Press Freedom Day: The challenges of Covid and censorship
A combination of the pandemic and restrictions already in place has made reporting for students more difficult
Index calls on US Department of Justice to drop Julian Assange appeal
We join 23 press freedom, civil liberties, and human rights organisations in call to drop case against WikiLeaks founder
Biden’s first week in office and what it means for free speech
A flurry of executive orders reverses many Trump-era policies
The Biden presidency: what can we expect for free speech?
We look at Joe Biden’s record sheet on free speech to see if we can find clues about his future presidency
Smears about the media made by US President Donald Trump have obscured a wider problem with press freedom in the United States: namely widespread and low-level animosity that feeds into the everyday working lives of the nation’s journalists, bloggers and media professionals. This study examines documented reports from across the country in the six months leading up to the presidential inauguration and the months after. It clearly shows that threats to US press freedom go well beyond the Oval Office.
“Animosity toward the press comes in many forms. Journalists are targeted in several ways: from social media trolling to harassment by law enforcement to over-the-top public criticism by those in the highest office. The negative atmosphere for journalists is damaging for the public and their right to information,” said Jodie Ginsberg, CEO at Index on Censorship, which documented the cases using an approach undertaken by the organization to monitor press freedom in Europe over the past three years. Learn more.