FIRE filed an amicus brief asking a federal court to protect journalists’ right to cover the recently concluded 2022 midterm elections in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Through casework at FIRE’s Student Press Freedom Initiative, we’ve identified a couple of trends that characterize the current landscape for the student press.
Texas officials arrested citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal for exercising her core First Amendment right to ask government officials for information as part of her reporting.
Political boycotts are protected expression under the First Amendment, but a recent rash of laws bar government contractors from participating in boycotts of goods and services originating from Israel.
Reported infighting between VMI administration and staff at The Cadet student newspaper has led to disputes regarding the paper’s status and distribution.