■ News outlets practiced restraint when it came to showing video of the killing of Charlie Kirk but with nearly instantaneous online images did it make any difference?
■ You can minimize the risk to your employment from social media posts, offered Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University, with “10 Ways You Can Use Your Free Speech Without Losing Your Job.”
■ You can minimize the risk to your employment from social media posts, offered Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University, with “10 Ways You Can Use Your Free Speech Without Losing Your Job.”
■ A day before the Utah Valley University shooting a survey of college students revealed that a majority of them oppose having controversial speakers on campus.
■ China and the United States have reached a tentative deal on a sale of TikTok, pending further negotiations.
Thought police? A proposed House bill could give Secretary of State Marco Rubio the power to strip passports from U.S. citizens solely based on what they think or say.
■ First Amendment lawyer Jenin Younes, who once sued former President Joe Biden over censorship, is guilty of making enemies on both left and right, The Washington Post reported.
■ Infowars’ Alex Jones, saying his First Amendment rights were violated in his Sandy Hook libel case, has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to upend the $1.4 billion judgment.
■ Whistleblowers told a U.S. Senate panel that Meta placed virtual-reality profits over the safety of children who used the platform.
Naming rights. The reinstatement of a Confederate general’s name on a Virginia high school violated its students’ First Amendment rights, a federal judge ruled.
■ Three states are leading the push to legally display the Ten Commandments in public schools while court rulings have blocked those efforts for now.
■ President Donald Trump, in a speech at the Bible Museum, announced that the U.S. Department of Education will issue guidance on prayer in public schools.
■ A classroom argument about teaching gender ideology captured on video has led to the dismissal of a professor at Texas A&M University.
■ For the second year in a row, Columbia University has placed near the bottom of the College Free Speech Rankings reported annually by The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
Reshaped. Paramount’s bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery would alter the shape of the media industry, effectively putting CNN and CBS News under the same corporate umbrella.
■ A proposed merger of two major television owners in Tennessee could have huge implications for national markets, including station duplication and shrinking newsrooms, argued Mark Harmon, a University of Tennessee-Knoxville journalism professor, in a recent commentary.
■ Meet Kenneth Weinstein, CBS News’ new ombudsman, not the same as the old ombudsman.
■ Following a complaint from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, CBS News will longer edit “Face the Nation” interviews.
Press protection. Citing an “avalanche of evidence” that ICE and Border Patrol agents violated the rights of reporters covering protests, a federal judge has barred officers from using crowd-control weapons against journalists.
■ A family succession fight has ended after media mogul Rupert Murdoch buys out three of his children and dissolves the family trust.
■ Rupert Murdoch’s eldest son, Lachlan, now has the power to decide the fate of News Corp’s newspapers.
■ Written and edited behind bars by Tennessee State Prison inmates in 1981, Nashville’s The Interim instigated change and set the blueprint for prison newspapers of today.
