■ Major news media settlements made to Donald Trump have undermined the First Amendment, Variety reported.
■ Donald Trump has sued The Wall Street Journal over a story about his ties to financier Jeffrey Epstein years ago.
■ The Trump administration is withholding more than just Epstein files. Public records requests are being ignored, Dave Levinthal argued in a MSNBC opinion piece.
■ On behalf of a prominent First Amendment scholar, a clinic at Vanderbilt University Law School is challenging a Tennessee open-records law that restricts access to state residents only.
Face it. The wearing of masks in public has become a constitutional matter that could test free-speech rights in this country.
■ A protest against ICE on an Ohio River bridge leads to felony charges against two Cincinnati journalists.
■ Arkansas can enforce its ban on critical race theory in public schools, a federal appeals court has ruled.
■ Wisconsin can institute its ban on conversion therapy, after a ruling by the state’s supreme court.
Showstoppers. Washington Post reporters have explained how the Steven Colbert and Donald Trump relationship illustrates the shifting power dynamics between broadcasting and streaming.
■ CBS/Paramount gave Steven Colbert a crash course in what freedom of speech really means, opined comic actor and Fox Nation’s host Rob Schneider.
■ A museum event meant to recognize local journalism was postponed after death threats were directed at a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist.
■ Press Forward, an initiative to help meet the needs of local newsrooms, presented a $1.25 million funding grant to Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
Protect and serve. The judge who lifted the gag order in the quadruple-murder case in Idaho said that doing so would protect the First Amendment rights of the public and the press.
■ A federal judge ruled that an executive order by President Trump to punish people working with the International Criminal Court violates the First Amendment.
■ Non-citizens in the country legally likely share the same First Amendment rights as U.S. citizens, a federal judge has surmised.
■ An NRA free-speech lawsuit against a former New York state official was dismissed by a federal appeals court.
■ On behalf of a prominent First Amendment scholar, a clinic at Vanderbilt University Law School is challenging a Tennessee open-records law that restricts access to state residents only.
Face it. The wearing of masks in public has become a constitutional matter that could test free-speech rights in this country.
■ A protest against ICE on an Ohio River bridge leads to felony charges against two Cincinnati journalists.
■ Arkansas can enforce its ban on critical race theory in public schools, a federal appeals court has ruled.
■ Wisconsin can institute its ban on conversion therapy, after a ruling by the state’s supreme court.
Showstoppers. Washington Post reporters have explained how the Steven Colbert and Donald Trump relationship illustrates the shifting power dynamics between broadcasting and streaming.
■ CBS/Paramount gave Steven Colbert a crash course in what freedom of speech really means, opined comic actor and Fox Nation’s host Rob Schneider.
■ A museum event meant to recognize local journalism was postponed after death threats were directed at a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist.
■ Press Forward, an initiative to help meet the needs of local newsrooms, presented a $1.25 million funding grant to Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
Protect and serve. The judge who lifted the gag order in the quadruple-murder case in Idaho said that doing so would protect the First Amendment rights of the public and the press.
■ A federal judge ruled that an executive order by President Trump to punish people working with the International Criminal Court violates the First Amendment.
■ Non-citizens in the country legally likely share the same First Amendment rights as U.S. citizens, a federal judge has surmised.
■ An NRA free-speech lawsuit against a former New York state official was dismissed by a federal appeals court.
Controllers. The years-long fight to take control of U.S. video streaming devices has come down to two giant video-company combatants, The New York Times reported.
■ Mark Zuckerberg and Meta investors settled claims seeking $8 billion over alleged Facebook users’ privacy violations.
■ Blackstone has withdrawn from a consortium seeking to invest in U.S. operations of TikTok.
■ Claiming defamatory information is being used in news coverage about the company, UnitedHealth is using an aggressive campaign to silence critics, according to an analysis in The New York Times.
■ Blackstone has withdrawn from a consortium seeking to invest in U.S. operations of TikTok.
■ Claiming defamatory information is being used in news coverage about the company, UnitedHealth is using an aggressive campaign to silence critics, according to an analysis in The New York Times.
