According to the First Amendment Center’s new survey, freedom of speech is Americans’ favorite First Amendment right.
Press freedom, however, came in dead last.
On Tuesday, I took part in a discussion at the NJ News Commons about the future of local news in New Jersey and beyond.
Exhibit A was Fox’s decision to replace WWOR’s evening newscast with Chasing New Jersey, a TV newsmagazine modeled after the celebrity gossip show TMZ.
Last Friday, the Justice Department released revised guidelines governing the Department’s interactions with the press. Attorney General Eric Holder conducted the review in response to the news that the DoJ had obtained the phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors and the emails of a Fox News reporter.
The past two weeks have been fully of juicy news — some good, some bad and some just plain silly. Here are a few stories that caught our attention. In the mix: a popular nationwide protest, a site that reveals what our metadata looks like to the National Security Agency and George Orwell's “telescreen” brought to life.
Imagine stopping by Barnes & Noble to pick up a book for your niece. You search around for a book by a woman of color. When you finally choose one, the store insists you buy 11 other novels along with it.
In recent years the news coverage on WWOR-TV in New Jersey got so bad that local residents started a campaign to have the Federal Communications Commission take away the station’s broadcast license. They don’t have to worry anymore because the station just canceled its remaining newscast.
When Mariana Cole-Rivera posted a question on Facebook about her workplace, she got fired.
Four colleagues at Hispanics United of Buffalo who had responded to her post were also dismissed.
In May, I graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a journalism degree and a mountain of student loan debt.
My roommates and I are careful about sticking to a budget — and every month we’re left wondering why our cable bill is so high.
Just days after announcing a major acquisition of 19 television stations, the Tribune Company has said it will spin off eight of its newspapers into a new entity called the Tribune Publishing Company.
On July 4, an estimated 20,000 protesters took to the streets across the country in defense of the Fourth Amendment — and in response to the revelations about the National Security Agency's spying programs.
