Lindsie Rank
FIRE Staff Speaker
Lindsie Rank is a 2018 graduate of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Law, Media & Communication dual-degree program, through which she earned a J.D. and a master’s in mass communication with a focus on First Amendment law. For her master’s thesis, Lindsie conducted a nationwide survey of college newspaper editors to examine the prevalence of administrative censorship of student media. Lindsie spent the summer of 2015 as a FIRE legal intern.
A native of the Pacific Northwest, Lindsie grew up on an onion farm in the heart of the Columbia Valley and earned her B.A. in English and journalism at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA. In her spare time, she enjoys sewing her wardrobe, spending hours in the kitchen whipping up vegan cuisine, and snuggling her pugador pups.
Recent Writings
- Announcing FIRE’s Free Press Workshop for student journalists,
- Indiana University stifles student press by blocking access to public records,
- Title IX weaponized against student journalists, again. This time, at Princeton.,
- This month on the SPFI hotline: Public records and Title IX,
- After FIRE letter, university administrator apologizes for confiscating student newspapers,
- After FIRE letter, UW Oshkosh changes employee media policy to allow student journalists access to staff sources,
- FIRE’s Student Press Freedom Initiative to host free ‘FOIA & Public Records 101’ webinar May 5,
- Cover story ‘cover-up’: Emporia State University newspapers mysteriously hidden under manila folders,
- Litigation against student newspapers remains uncommon, but recent suits counsel vigilance,
- This month on the SPFI hotline: Public records laws as applied to private university police forces,
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