Press Freedom

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Press Freedom

Surveilling journalists to discover their sources. Using the Espionage Act to prosecute whistleblowers for disclosing information to the press that the public should know. Arresting and attacking journalists reporting on social unrest. Criminalizing the kinds of activities that journalists engage in routinely and as a necessary part of their work. Serious threats, all, to the freedom of the press. 

This blog channel highlights the Institute’s ongoing work to preserve and strengthen free press protections in the digital age.

Litigation

Press Statement

Knight Institute Comments on Supreme Court Petition Involving Florida Social Media Law

Says case raises critically important questions about free speech online

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Reading Room

Press Statement

Newly Released Office of Legal Counsel Memos Show Evolution of Executive Privilege, 1972-1984

Opinions among hundreds published for the first time in response to Knight Institute litigation

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Institute Update

Press Statement

Jelani Cobb and Deb Roy Join Knight Institute Board

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Litigation

Lawsuit

Wikimedia v. NSA

A lawsuit challenging the NSA’s “Upstream” surveillance

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