Editorial | Assange’s journalist credentials aren’t the issue
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
May 28, 2019
His prosecution is worrisome because it erases the line between the responsibility of government employees to safeguard information and the freedom of civilians who are protected under the First Amendment.
Opinion | Trump’s executive order for free speech is ineffective
By Hayden Timmins, Staff Columnist
March 27, 2019
The order states that the government can withhold federal funds if the school is deemed to have violated the First Amendment, but it offers no specific way of determining this.
As Trump announces ‘Fake News Awards,’ GOP senators assail his attacks on the press as anti-democratic
By Noah Bierman | Tribune Washington Bureau (TNS)
January 18, 2018
On a day President Donald Trump promised to deliver "Fake News Awards," two Republican senators as well as several Democrats warned Wednesday that his unceasing attacks on a free press are undermining a fundamental tenet of democracy and emboldening despots abroad. Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, who...
Editorial: ACLU threatens Harris with strong First Amendment lawsuit
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 16, 2017
Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Darlene Harris somehow manages to regularly get herself into the petty types of quarrels that make Buzzfeed headlines — in April last year, she made local headlines when she got into a verbal altercation with a bicyclist. She took up bike lanes as a major aspect of ...
Editorial: St. Louis police endanger freedom of the press
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
September 25, 2017
Conventional wisdom proposes that it’s difficult to truly care about an issue until that issue affects you personally. For journalists in St. Louis, the controversy surrounding police brutality in America is coming to that point. In the light of protests during the past week and a half, local, national...
Berkeley braces for right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro’s visit
By Anna M. Phillips | Los Angeles Times (TNS)
September 12, 2017
Girding itself for a visit from another polarizing political figure and the possibility of more violent protests, the University of California, Berkeley is tightening campus security. In a message sent earlier this week, Provost Paul Alivisatos said the university was taking precautions in advance of the ...