Don’t tread on my editorial independence 

What can student newspapers do when funding is threatened by the whims of administrators?

Los Angeles City College Draft Media Guidelines

Pennsylvania State University: Board of Trustees Eliminates The Daily Collegian’s Financial Support

The nearly 120-year-old newspaper will no longer receive university funding, signaling a critical deprioritization of independent student voices.

FIRE Letter to Pennsylvania State University, July 28, 2023

Defendant Irish Rover’s Answer to Plaintiff’s Complaint for Defamation

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FIRE joins brief urging Supreme Court to affirm First Amendment protections for undercover journalists

In 2013, Planned Parenthood learned that it had been surreptitiously recorded by an activist group calling itself the Center for Medical Progress.

Center for Medical Progress v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America

In 2015, Planned Parenthood sued the Center for Medical Progress for using undercover investigative techniques to surreptitiously record Planned Parenthood events and publishing those videos as evidence of alleged trafficking in fetal tissue for profit. A California jury found in favor of Planned Parenthood and awarded the organization nearly $2.5 million in compensatory damages.

If no one is listening, does free speech make a sound? 

Is free speech in a politically apathetic community truly free speech? This is a difficult question to think about, so let me provide a more tangible, personal answer.

Los Angeles City College: Administrators Threaten Student Journalists’ and Newspaper Adviser’s Rights

LACC bars student journalists from entering public spaces and events and calls the student paper’s adviser into a meeting with the president amidst public criticism of the school’s treatment of the press.