Analysis

Original analyses on press freedom trends and monthly incident roundups written by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker staff with features on First Amendment issues published by our partner organizations.

Showing posts by Columbia Journalism Review

One Battle After Another

Published

November 12, 2025

Written by

Carolina Abbott Galvão and Riddhi Setty
Columbia keeps ‘investigating’ student journalists covering pro-Palestine protests

Reporters on campus tell CJR it’s a threat to press freedom.

Published

May 19, 2025

Written by

Meghnad Bose, Anna Oakes
The cynicism of blaming the media for the Trump assassination attempt

Some of the critics in the aftermath of the Trump assassination seemed to be accusing journalists of being both overly reckless and, at least in their coverage of the shooting’s immediate aftermath, overly cautious.

Published

July 15, 2024

Written by

Jon Allsop
There’s no right way to respond to GOP media restrictions. That’s the point.

Published

August 24, 2022

Written by

Jon Allsop
The Supreme Court stamps on freedom of information

Published

June 25, 2019

Written by

Jon Allsop
Propaganda or not, forcing RT to register sets a bad precedent

Published

December 1, 2017

Written by

Joel Simon
When a journalist is arrested covering a protest, what should the news outlet do?

Ten media lawyers and U.S. news executives share their advice

Published

October 2, 2017

Written by

Jonathan Peters