Table of Contents
Difficult Conversations
Recent Articles
FIRE’s award-winning Newsdesk covers the free speech news you need to stay informed.

From worst to first: Alumni help Bucknell surge up FIRE’s College Free Speech Rankings
An innovative alumni-led organization that focuses on intellectual diversity and the free exchange of ideas is making waves at Bucknell University.

Misunderstanding First Amendment, CUNY says anti-Israel commencement speech was not free speech but ‘hate speech’
After a student-selected speaker criticized Israel, the university, capitalism, and more in her May 12 law school commencement speech, the City University of New York released a statement calling the remarks “hate speech” and claiming they are not free speech.

New Knight First Amendment Institute report and documentary: ‘Covering Democracy: Protests, police, and the press’ — First Amendment News 381
The new documentary “features the stories of several journalists who were assaulted or arrested while reporting at protests and explores the conflict and tension experienced on the frontlines, the changing role of the press, and the hardening of attitudes among the police toward journalists.”

Princetonians for Free Speech launch a new survey to measure the success of free speech advocacy
In partnership with College Pulse, a free speech alumni group at Princeton has surveyed 250 undergraduates to learn more about the state of free expression on campus and determine how best to leverage their activism.