• Google Takes a Step in the Right Direction

    Candace Clement
    October 23, 2013
    Score one for the good guys. In response to public pressure, Google released an updated terms of service that reversed an earlier move to prohibit the use of servers on its new fiber networks.

  • Media Giants Are Devouring Local TV

    Josh Stearns
    October 21, 2013
    Most Americans get their news from local TV — but thanks to a new wave of media mergers, there is less and less news to find. A new report from Free Press exposes the broadcasters' sneaky tactics.

  • Hacking Partisanship

    Timothy Karr
    October 21, 2013
    Washington likes to talk bipartisanship. During the government shutdown, elected officials from both parties clogged the airwaves with rhetoric about crossing over, finding common cause with political foes and ending the standoff.

  • A New Call to Protect Acts of Journalism

    Josh Stearns
    October 17, 2013
    More people than ever are participating in journalism. In a new paper we’re releasing today, we profile some of these journalists and highlight the emerging consensus around a new vision for press freedom, one that protects all acts of journalism.

  • Taking the Fight for Privacy to the Streets

    Josh Levy
    October 16, 2013
    It’s been four months since Edward Snowden exposed the NSA’s spying regime. Since then, we’ve discovered that the agency tracks our phone calls, our emails, our browsing history and our contacts. It also tracks our contacts’ contacts … and their contacts.

  • Free Press Tells Holder to Stop Harassing Journalists

    Amy Kroin
    October 11, 2013
    Today Free Press delivered 78,000 petition signatures to Attorney General Eric Holder with a simple message: Leave journalists alone.

  • Committee to Protect Journalists Report Gauges the Press Freedom Crisis

    Josh Stearns
    October 10, 2013
    It’s nearly impossible to gauge the full impact of harassment of the press. How do you measure the stories that go untold because a journalist felt intimidated?

  • The Web We Want Awards Its First Grants

    Josh Levy
    October 9, 2013
    Last month, our Web We Want campaign announced the launch of our Small Grants program, through which we made a limited number of small grants to national and global digital rights campaigning efforts.

  • Internet Freedom: A Disturbing View from the Trenches

    Timothy Karr
    October 4, 2013
    Is the Internet freedom movement a thing? That depends on who you ask, and where you live.

  • Tech Titans Jump the Shark

    Amy Kroin
    October 3, 2013
    If Google’s motto is “Don’t be evil,” it has a lot of explaining to do. The company has reportedly joined the American Legislative Exchange Council — the corporate-funded group hell-bent on destroying the environment, disenfranchising voters, undermining teachers’ unions and eliminating gun-control laws.

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