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State of the First Amendment 2015
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. The First Amendment Center put out its annual State of…
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10 keys to newsroom transformation
Steve Buttry, a longtime digital pioneer, agent provocateur for newsroom change and currently the Lamar Family Visiting Scholar at Louisiana State University, has done a series of blog posts over the past week on the “Four Platform Newsroom” effort of the former Scripps newspapers. Working with the Knight Digital Media Center at the University of…
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A decade of freedom of information challenges
Here’s a A timeline tracing events over the past 10 years that show the country’s ambivalence over the free flow of information. It is being distributed by ASNE and major news organizations, including the Associated Press, The McClatchy Company and Gannett, as part of Sunshine Week, March 15-21, 2015.