Unified Voices Summit in Florida: Educators, Authors, Faith Leaders and Activists Organize for the Right to Read
The Unified Voices Summit July 12-13 brings together authors, educators, students, teacher’s unions, faith leaders, and activists from across the state to solidify and mobilize the growing grassroots movement… More
Risk Assessment and Physical Safety: What Every Journalist Should Know
Recent physical attacks on student reporters covering campus protests highlighted an uncomfortable truth: Journalist safety is declining in the United States. The U.S. slipped 10 places in the recent World… More
Trouble in Censorville: Teachers Describe Trauma Inflicted in the War on Education
Depression. Social isolation. Insomnia, weight gain, hair loss. These are some of the symptoms that 14 public school teachers describe experiencing in Trouble in Censorville, a collection of oral… More
PEN America Prison and Justice Writing Program FAQ
PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing program (PJW) is a successful program that has supported the freedom to write inside U.S. prisons for a half century. More
Jawboning: When Educational Censors Don’t Bother Passing a Law
Censorship advocates have increasingly responded to growing resistance with a new tactic: trying to achieve the same results without passing a law at all. More
Recent Books on Justice and Incarceration
PEN America's Prison and Justice Writing Program features ten recently published books on justice and incarceration in the United States. More
Nearly 3,400 Books Were Banned in Iowa
Schools across Iowa pulled at least 3,400 books – including Captain Underpants, the Holocaust memoirs Maus, dozens of classics, and books written for young readers. More
Fighting Disinformation Can be Simple
About practices that can support journalists in combating disinformation, many respondents reported their newsrooms don't implement them. More
The State of Book Bans: South Carolina Is Poised to Get Worse
If the South Carolina legislators pushing these regulations paid attention, they’d see that creating further pathways to remove books has consistently been a disaster. More
How journalists can combat political disinformation in a world of echo chambers and deepfakes
The National Press Club Journalism Institute hosted a conversation between journalists and experts who laid out the scope of the disinformation problem. More