Chris Maltby
Communications Team
Chris is a graduate of Temple University’s School of Media and Communication. He started his video career interning with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union’s communications department. From there, Chris went on to coordinate parts of the Labor 2008 Campaign in Philadelphia. Chris has spent much of his career working in post-production, both in the Washington, D.C., and New York media markets. He has produced video for a variety of commercial companies and nonprofit organizations, including TEDx; amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research; Honda; and Cartier. Chris comes to FIRE from Bleacher Report, where he served as a video editor in New York. Chris is also an avid Philadelphia sports fan.
Recent Writings
- Professor fired for BLM support: 'Free speech is free, it shouldn't cost you anything' [VIDEO],
- Student sues university to restore press freedom [VIDEO],
- He used the phrase “trap house” — then Yale admins tried to trap him into apologizing,
- Why I’m suing Eastern Virginia Medical School [VIDEO],
- College due process report 2021 [VIDEO],
- Haverford College adopted a restrictive speech code banning 'microaggressions' [VIDEO],
- FIRE Student Network 2021 Keynote Address: Jane Coaston [VIDEO],
- FIRE Student Network 2021 Keynote Address: Alex Abdo [VIDEO],
- So to Speak podcast transcript: Stonewalling by the University of California,
- Separate IS unequal at Lewis and Clark College [VIDEO],
- The state of free speech at RPI: Not good,
- Berkeley: Then and now (VIDEO),
- Whistleblowers on campus (VIDEO),
- 'The Talk’: How to ‘do’ free speech (VIDEO),
- Best of Newsdesk: Censored at DePaul,
- Protesters disrupt Charles Murray at Villanova University (VIDEO) [UPDATED],
- Murray event ignites free speech discussions at Villanova (VIDEO),
- BACK TO SCHOOL: The Do’s and Don'ts of Campus Activism (VIDEO),
- Best of 'The Torch': New York’s Affirmative Consent Law Affirmatively Confuses Students (VIDEO),
- Harvard Faculty, Students, Alumni Condemn Social Club Blacklist (VIDEO),
- From Black Armbands to the Supreme Court: Mary Beth Tinker and Student Free Speech Rights,
- Conference Coverage: 'The Fate of Freedom of Expression in Liberal Democracies' at Wellesley (VIDEO),
- Williams College’s Zach Wood Won’t Back Down on Free Speech (VIDEO),
- In Her Own Words: Laura Kipnis’ ‘Title IX Inquisition’ at Northwestern (VIDEO),
- The Man Behind the ‘Conspiracy’: Eugene Volokh, UCLA Law Professor (VIDEO),
- No Limits: University of South Carolina Students Fight for Free Speech (VIDEO),
- Jodie Ginsberg of Index on Censorship on the Global State of Censorship (VIDEO),
- Joanna Williams of ‘spiked’ on ‘Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity’ (VIDEO),
- FIRE Explains Student Journalists’ Rights (VIDEO),
- New York’s Affirmative Consent Law Affirmatively Confuses Students (VIDEO),
- Ken White of ‘Popehat’ Talks Anonymous Speech with FIRE (VIDEO),
- Geoffrey Stone on the University of Chicago’s Statement on Free Expression,
- Former ACLU President Nadine Strossen on FIRE’s ‘Critical Role’,
- Radley Balko on the ‘Terrifying’ New Threat to Free Speech in America,
- VIDEO: Mick Hume of 'spiked' on Trigger Warnings and Free Speech in the UK,
- VIDEO: Lukianoff & Haidt on "The Coddling of the American Mind",
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