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NNA provides its members with content to reprint or post to websites.
This content includes columns by directors and NNA member newspapers, Freedom Forum Institute's First Amendment columns/ editorials (available weekly) and more.
Perspective: Amid AIDS crisis, LGBTQ press won key First Amendment battle
Jun 3, 2021
LGBTQ press has always had to fight for the right to publish. To kick off Pride Month this week, guest columnist Mark Segal shares how he took that fight all the way to the Supreme Court to save not only ...
PERSPECTIVE: News outlets need caution in offering a ‘fresh start’
May 27, 2021
Gene Policinski looks at the policies of a growing number of news outlets offering to essentially “unpublish” identifying information, news reports or photos from digital news archives – ...
Perspective: Tide may be turning toward religious exemptions from vaccine mandates
May 20, 2021
Courts seem increasingly reluctant to enforce government mandates when faced with religious objections.
Perspective: Sikh Americans defend religious freedom for all
May 13, 2021
David Callaway shares two stories of Sikh Americans who used their First Amendment rights as a shield for the religious freedom of all Americans. Read the column. A plain text version is available for ...
Perspective: Student athletes have a right to peaceful protest
May 6, 2021
Freedom Forum First Amendment Fellow David Hudson Jr. explains why a group of Tennessee state senators were out of bounds in objecting to East Tennessee State University basketball players taking a knee ...
Pandemic payoffs: sample copies and public notices
May 1, 2021
The main issue facing the country and most of our communities is what it has been for more than a year: the coronavirus. We are in what is almost certainly the last chapter, immunization — but this ...
Perspective: Celebrating World Press – and our – Freedom Day
Apr 29, 2021
Gene Policinski explains why even press critics should celebrate World Press Freedom Day.
PERSPECTIVE: Cancel culture can chill free speech; it’s also free speech in action
Apr 22, 2021
Freedom Forum fellow for First Amendment, discusses cancel culture in this month’s edition of First Five Express.
Free Expression Awards: How nine honorees used their First Amendment powers
Apr 8, 2021
In advance of the Freedom Forum’s 2021 Free Expression Awards on April 15, Patty Rhule describes how the nine honorees sparked change through free and fearless expression and asks us to consider ...
