This story is part of Know Your News — a Granite State News Collaborative and NENPA Press Freedom Committee initiative on why the First Amendment, press freedom and local news matter. The U.S. and New ...

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is important to Americans, but only a fraction of them can fully explain why. That’s according to an annual survey by Freedom Forum which polled Americans ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. President Trump said ‘no’ last month when asked whether the Pentagon should control what reporters gather and ...

This year, the U.S. received its lowest ranking since Reporters Without Borders launched a global press rights index in 2002.

GREAT BARRINGTON — With free speech under attack across the country, Nicki Wilson spotlighted it at the Triplex Cinema. And who better to discuss it than acclaimed First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams?

The New York Times is suing the Department of War over its new policy that bars journalists from entering the Pentagon for not adhering to its newsgathering terms. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U ...

The New York Times announced that it will sue the Pentagon over its imposition of new restrictions on the press reporting on the military. Much of the Pentagon press corps walked out on Oct. 15 after ...

Iowa has long stood at the intersection of First Amendment battles. In 1938, Des Moines Public Library Director Forrest Spaulding penned the words that would become the Library Bill of Rights. In 1969 ...

The public assassination of Charlie Kirk evoked a range of responses across the country, from shock and grief to more unsettling and controversial celebrations of his death. And, as with every ...