The nation’s founders recognized that access to news and information was crucial to ensuring a robust republic with an engaged citizenry. To ensure that citizens, including those not privileged or affluent, could keep tabs on their government, they took two crucial steps. First, they established the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as part of the Bill of Rights. Among the five freedoms embedded in the First Amendment is the right to free speech and free press.
In a Q&A, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson explains why he's leading a coalition of attorneys general that's urging Congress to help save local newspapers....
Great stories about the journalism crisis are appearing lately. Hopefully members of Congress, who are in the final stretch of writing a budget bill that...
We don’t often talk about how a paper’s collapse makes people feel: less connected, more alone, Elaine Godfrey writes, as she revisits her hometown newspaper...
At a rally Saturday in Iowa, the former president attacked the Local Journalism Sustainability Act, a bipartisan bill that would help save the local news...
The symbolism of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize goes far beyond its tribute to Maria Ressa and Dimitry Muratov, independent journalists fighting for freedom of...
There's a good reason the public holds Congress in even lower esteem than the media: They never seem to get much done, even on those...
Will the Facebook whistleblower revelations finally prompt Congress to reform privacy and competition laws, to address harms caused by dominant tech platforms? U.S. Sen. Maria...
Facebook is getting all sorts of attention for whistleblower revelations. But don't overlook a searing new report from a British trade publication on troubles with...
Jeremy Gulban is the latest tech executive who believes his technical and business expertise can save newspapers he's acquiring.
For roughly 40 years, Washington’s statehouse reporters based their Legislative Building coverage of governors, lawmakers and intrigues from outside the domed capitol. Now they will...
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