Statement: Protesters Should Have Allowed Homeland Secretary Chief to Proceed with Talk
“Protests cross the line when they constitute a ‘heckler’s veto,’ preventing someone else’s speech and curtailing the rights of those who came to listen." More
PEN America Calls on Trump Administration to Open Migrant Camps to Journalists’ Scrutiny
“It is shocking that the American public largely must learn about the dangerous conditions at these detention centers not through reporters being able to cover the news, but through… More
DARE: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Apologize in Testimony to Congress
Mark Zuckerberg to offer "big apology" in Capitol Hill testimony on data breach. Department of Homeland Security seeks contractor to compile comprehensive database tracking journalists and media outlets. Backpage.com… More
Department of Homeland Security’s Plans for Journalist Database Must be Quashed Immediately
Under any circumstances, an effort by the Department of Homeland Security to create a database identifying journalists and logging the ‘sentiments’ of hundreds of thousands of press outlets would… More
DARE: Congressional Democrats call on Facebook, Twitter to urgently investigate and combat Russian bots and trolls
Top congressional Democrats call on Facebook and Twitter to take urgent look at role of Russian bots in the growing online campaign to release a classified memo. Facebook’s new… More
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OPINION | Journalists are first responders too: We need reporters on the front lines in real time
In a NYT opinion, a historian said of the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918: “the most important lesson ... Tell the truth.”
@summerelopez of @PENamerica writes
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-journalists-are-first-responders-too-20200331-x6np2vywsjemra6ndfry767aua-story.html
Loved doing #thePENpod for @penamerica about the attacks from the administration on free expression during this pandemic. Listen here: https://anchor.fm/penamerica/episodes/Episode-9-Reza-Aslan-on-Attacks-to-Free-Expression-During-the-Pandemic-ec1541/a-a1q58u0
A prominent Pakistani journalist who fled the country after receiving death threats has gone missing in Sweden where he had been granted political asylum. https://bit.ly/3aJvNOI