Facebook’s news initiative papers over a deeper problem for the news media | Op-Ed
If we want to get serious about reversing journalism’s downward economic spiral, a digital-ad tax is a good place to start.
Free Press
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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Reporters should be asking the presidential candidates if media consolidation troubles them and what they might do about it.
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Journalists should not be — and cannot be — kept from seeking the truth by officials using the government's power to block their investigations.
Sen. Warren, make free press a priority | Editorial
Democracy suffers when coverage fades. Government is less accountable, voter participation falls and fewer candidates seek office.
The decline of the free press hurts democracy | Editorial
The erosion of a free and independent press is a threat to democracy.
Elevating social-media fraudsters while eroding a free press | Trudy Rubin / Syndicated columnist
We are living at a time when social media already blurs the line between fact and fiction. Without a press that speaks "truth to power,"...
Greed and the attack on American newspapers | Op-Ed
Of the 10 largest newspaper owners in the country, six are now investment firms.