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.
It is long past time the American publishers were paid a fair and appropriate license payment for access to their product. The governments of Australia,...
With losses mounting at its Yakima subsidiary, The Seattle Times is selling the Yakima Herald-Republic building and cutting about 50 jobs. Similar cost cutting is...
News publishers — in Australia and elsewhere — will continue losing a sizable share of their audience if Facebook cuts them off, and I suspect...
The United States and its policymakers should be prepared to resist the kind of bullying Facebook and Google have attempted against the Australian government. These...
Microsoft's president explains why he and the company are advocating to sustain the free press and for an Australian proposal that would force Facebook and...
Almost all newspapers are struggling these days because print advertising has declined drastically and readers have moved online. But they are still doing some of...
It was so irrefutable that even the former president's greatest enabler, Mitch McConnell, admitted what the facts were: that Trump was "practically and morally responsible"...
Focusing on content, and trying to legislate fairness, won't solve the intertwined problems of misinformation, monopolistic digital platforms and failing local newspapers.
As opposed to introducing journalism as a high school club or career track, we should teach it to younger students as a life skill. Then...
Lies and falsehoods, including conspiracy theories, often have a lasting harmful effect, long after they have been successfully debunked. Social media providers should not be...
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