When The News Reads You Back: Why Journalists Need to Stand Up for Reader Privacy
When you are reading the news, it is reading you back. According to new research out of the University of Pennsylvania visiting news websites exposes you to more than twice …
It’s Time for a Real Debate on Reader Privacy
Last week longtime local publisher Howard Owens, founder of the online news site the Batavian, launched a new publication covering Wyoming County in upstate New York. Buried in a parenthetical …
Why the Supreme Court Cell Phone Decision is a Win for Press Freedom
According to the Supreme Court, police need a warrant to search the cellphones of people they arrest. The unanimous decision, which was handed down this week, is being heralded as …
United States Plummets in Global Press Freedom Rankings
According to a new report from Reporters Without Borders, there was a profound erosion of press freedom in the United States in 2013. After a year of attacks on …
Committee to Protect Journalists Issues Scathing Report on US Press Freedoms
It’s nearly impossible to gauge the full impact of harassment of the press. How do you measure the stories that go untold because a journalist felt intimidated? How do you …
Security, Secrecy and the Democratic Demands of an Informed Public
The American experiment is premised on the idea that an informed public is central to self-governance and a functioning democracy. But today, that fundamental idea is being challenged, at times …
Why Fighting for Hard-Hitting, Nonprofit News May Mean Taking on the IRS
When we think about journalism coming under attack by the government we rarely think about the Internal Revenue Service. We think about the persecution of whistleblowers, over classification of documents, …