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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.
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Update internet regulations to save journalism | Editorial
If Congress updates Section 230, it should do so in a way that provides a more level playing field for the media.
Fourth Estate advocates fight for journalism’s life by challenging Google | Save the Free Press | Opinion
Google faced renewed criticism for monopolistic behavior this week, with a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing on "self-preferencing" by the search and advertising company,...
It’s time for tech-platform responsibility | Op-Ed
There is bipartisan, near-unanimity around the principle that the online network giants must take responsibility to clean up the hate speech, election manipulation, piracy of...
Beijing’s great leap backward | Bret Stephens / Syndicated columnist
Several years ago, in an overheated room in Beijing, I was forced to endure a stern lecture from a Chinese foreign ministry official. My sin:...
Is time running out for ambitious political journalism at The Des Moines Register? Not yet | Margaret Sullivan / Syndicated columnist
With the Iowa caucuses Monday and the results of a final Iowa Poll, owned by the Register, due out Saturday night, the Register's staff is...
Creating a news-media cartel would hurt local news | Op-Ed
The internet has changed advertising, as it has changed everything else. Yet that doesn’t mean local media is without hope.
2020: The year America gets its act together | Op-Ed
Citizen involvement, working together, demanding to be informed, organizing on the issues, getting commitments from candidates, and then holding them accountable, is demanding. Yet it...
Communities are the winners of new federal law to save local journalism | Editorial
An important new federal law represents a lifeline for at least 17 — perhaps many more — independent regional newspapers across the country, from Seattle...
Save the Free Press initiative: A message from Publisher Frank Blethen
In keeping with the Blethen family’s 123-year stewardship of independent journalism and community service, we believe this is the moment for all of us to...