
A. Adam Glenn
Adam Glenn is a writer/editor at the Knight First Amendment Institute. In addition to producing content in support of the Institute’s research and litigation programs, he helps develop the Institute’s overall editorial voice across its research, communications, and public education programs.
A veteran journalist, Glenn has worked since the early 1980s for newspaper, magazine, and online newsrooms in New York and Washington, D.C., including as an associate editor covering the media industry for a weekly newsmagazine, and as senior producer managing business, technology, science, and health coverage at ABC News. He has been a digital pioneer since the early 1990s and has consulted with a wide array of news publishers, think tanks, non-profits, and agencies, including the United Nations. In the early 1990s, Glenn began specializing in environmental journalism, in recent years launching two climate change news services; he currently edits a weekly online magazine for environmental journalists.
Glenn is a long-time journalism trainer and educator, first teaching in the early 2000s during a fellowship to India. He has since held full- and part-time faculty positions at Columbia University, New York University, and the City University of New York, where he most recently served as a distinguished lecturer. He is currently an adjunct professor of journalism at CUNY’s Hunter College.
Glenn has won numerous fellowships, grants, and awards, including a Knight Foundation News Challenge grant, a Wilson Center public policy scholar residency, and fellowships from the Vermont Law School, the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He was recently part of a team in partnership with WNYC Radio that won a national Murrow Award for coverage of climate change in New York, and previously was part of the team at ABC News honored with a Peabody Award for coverage of 9/11.
He holds a master’s degree in international policy from the Fletcher School, and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University.
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Deep Dive : Lies and the Law
Symposium Suggests Large-Scale Societal Changes Are Needed to Lessen Impact of Harmful Lies
By A. Adam GlennInstitute’s “Lies, Free Speech, and the Law” event featured research from a diverse range of scholars on how to address the problem of falsehoods
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Inside Look
Edgar v. Haines: Could Overturning a 1980 Supreme Court Case Help Fix the Broken Prepublication Review System?
The Institute’s Ramya Krishnan on challenging the 40-year-old case underlying the intelligence agencies’ sweeping censorship system
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Quick Take : Toward a Better Internet
Institute Litigation Director Calls for Research into the “New Physics” of Public Discourse
Arcane algorithms must be brought to light to grapple with little-understood impacts on elections, media, and society
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Quick Take : Toward a Better Internet
On Panel, Institute Attorney Warns of Legal Obstacles to Public-Interest Research on Internet Platforms
Krishnan points to Knight Institute's “safe harbor” proposal and just-released policy paper
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Quick Take : Toward a Better Internet
When Social Media Regulation Meets the First Amendment
Knight Institute director, in Decoder podcast appearance, calls on courts to reject all-or-nothing First Amendment claims by states, social media companies
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Inside Look
Knight Institute v. Federal Bureau of Prisons: FOIA Lawsuit Seeks Records on Mail Digitization and Surveillance
The Institute’s Stephanie Krent on how prisons are creating a digital dragnet with few apparent controls
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Quick Take
Institute Presses Once More for OLC Transparency
Calls for the Biden administration to routinely make public the final legal opinions of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel
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Quick Take
"Information Disorder" Report Calls for Social Media Transparency
Aspen Institute commission calls on Congress to protect researchers who study social media
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Inside Look
City of Austin v. Reagan National Advertising: Proposing a More Nuanced Test for Identifying Content-Based Laws
The Institute’s Scott Wilkens on how a Supreme Court case involving a city sign code may influence the government’s ability to protect free speech online
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Inside Look
Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA: Targeting an Intelligence Program That Monitors Americans’ International Internet Traffic
The Institute’s Alex Abdo on why the NSA’s extensive, warrantless “Upstream” surveillance threatens privacy and free speech
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Deep Dive
Are Human Rights Violations Becoming More Difficult to Hide?
In the post-/911 digital era, experts reflect on what they learned from the government's response to the World Trade Center attacks, and how the world of human rights activism has changed
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Inside Look
Doc Society v. Blinken: Challenging the State Department’s Social Media Registration Requirement
The Institute's Carrie DeCell details how the requirement is a social media dragnet that chills the speech and associations of millions of people around the world
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Quick Take : Toward a Better Internet
Institute Litigation Director Troubled Over Future of Research on Facebook
Knight Institute believes platform is trying to silence independent research into its ad-related practices
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Quick Take
Free Speech and the ‘Cancel Culture’ Conundrum
One of the most challenging free speech questions is whether and when individuals should feel free to "cancel" the speech of others, through boycotts or other exercises of private power. That was a central message from Alex Abdo, Knight Institute...
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Deep Dive : Toward a Better Internet
Can We Conceive of a New Internet?
By A. Adam GlennThe Knight First Amendment Institute hosted a week-long symposium to explore ways to lessen the dominance of tech giants and find new alternatives to gather online.
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Deep Dive : Toward a Better Internet
Social Media Mapping Project Takes Flight with Avian Avatars
Collaboration between Institute researchers, artist pairs various online community “logics” with birds of a feather
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Institute Update
Institute Interns Take On Cutting-Edge First Amendment Issues
Students work alongside the Institute’s attorneys on ground-breaking litigation, free-speech advocacy, and research
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Deep Dive : Public Officials and Social Media
Paxton Critics Blocked, Now Unblocked, from Texas AG’s Twitter Account
Texas AG unblocks critics in response to Knight Institute, ACLU of Texas lawsuit maintaining the account is a "public forum" under the First Amendment
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Quick Take
Does the First Amendment Need to be Recalibrated for the Digital Age?
Our nation’s long-standing First Amendment tolerance for varied speech — even speech that is false or hateful — may need recalibrating in the digital era, suggested Columbia University President and Knight Institute board member Lee Bollinger, speaking at a...
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Quick Take
Former Guantánamo Detainee Celebrates Biographical Film, The Mauritanian, As Victory Over Secrecy
The all-encompassing secrecy regime surrounding the U.S. prison camp at Guantánamo Bay concealed widespread abuses against the men who have been held there in the years following 9/11. Essential to that regime was the almost complete suppression of the voices...
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Quick Take
‘Dissident’ Panelists Call for Accountability Over Khashoggi Killing; Warn of Ongoing Digital Security Threat to Civil Society
Press freedom, human rights, and digital security experts at a Feb. 24 panel discussion called for greater accountability over the ruthless 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by agents of the Saudi government.
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Quick Take
Appeals Court Ruling on Device Searches at Border Misguided, Says Knight Institute Attorney
A ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Alasaad v. Mayorkas was wrong to reject First and Fourth Amendment challenges to warrantless — and sometimes suspicionless — device searches at the border, contended Knight First...
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