US/China: VOA Needs Thorough, Independent Investigation into Journalists’...
NEW YORK – Voice of America (VOA) should ensure that its investigation into the circumstances surrounding the suspension of five VOA Mandarin Service journalists be comprehensive and fully address...
View ArticleTrump’s First Foreign Trip Risks Sending Wrong Message on Free Expression Rights
NEW YORK—The White House must ensure that journalists traveling abroad with President Trump and Secretary Tillerson are granted the access required to do their jobs, PEN America said today. The...
View ArticleNew Budget Proposal a Potential “Deathblow” to Arts and Culture Funding
President Trump’s proposal to completely defund the United States’ federal arts and culture institutions in the 2018 budget would deprive millions of Americans access to valuable and enriching...
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Covfefe flap goes viral, drawing in Hillary Clinton and prompting Trump lawyers to redouble warnings about the President’s errants tweets. Two nooses found at Smithsonian Museums in Washington in...
View ArticleDARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
Citizens and their leaders in local jurisdictions with economies larger than some countries say they will contest at the state level the Trump administration decision to walk the United States away...
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‘Hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment,’ Portland mayor says. He’s wrong. As his city mourns two men who were killed after confronting a man screaming anti-Muslim slurs, Mayor Ted Wheeler...
View ArticleReports That Senate May Bar Press Interviews in Hill Hallways Raise Serious...
WASHINGTON – Reports that the Senate may have considered enforcing a rule prohibiting members of the press from interviewing senators outside of “designated areas” in the Capitol raise serious First...
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U.S. Supreme Court issues two consequential First Amendment decisions, one barring the government from refusing to trademark names on grounds that they may be considered offensive, and the other...
View ArticleDARE: The U.S. Is Now a ‘Noticeably Problematic’ Place to Be a Journalist,...
Want to receive this digest in your inbox? To subscribe, simply click here and choose DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression from the list. Reporters Without Borders releases its World Press...
View ArticlePEN America and Allies File Court Brief Demanding Information on Visa...
(New York, NY)–Alongside a coalition of media freedom organizations, PEN America this week filed a friend of the court brief supporting the principals undergirding the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...
View ArticlePEN America Files Ninth Circuit Legal Brief in Support of Student Detained...
(New York, NY) — This week, PEN America filed a friend of the court brief urging the Ninth Circuit to affirm Jose Bello’s First Amendment rights and to reverse the lower court’s findings that...
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Thank you for taking action to defend the First Amendment rights of...
We can no longer take our First Amendment rights for granted. We’ve seen how encroachments on those rights—from press freedom to freedom of assembly—have increased in recent years, and it’s up to us...
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China Is Fighting the Coronavirus Propaganda War to Win
Photo by AP / Ng Han Guan This piece was originally published by Foreign Policy. Beijing isn’t interested in a tit-for-tat media feud with the United States—it’s going for escalation dominance. China’s...
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The PEN Pod: Breaking Down PEN America v. Trump with Nora Benavidez
PEN America sued the president in October 2018 for using the powers of the presidency to attack the press, and just yesterday, a federal judge in New York ruled that PEN America’s lawsuit against...
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As We Confront a Pandemic, U.S. State and Federal Government Must Support...
This piece was originally published by Slate. The passage of $2 trillion in economic stimulus to jumpstart the U.S. economy is a significant benchmark in the coronavirus outbreak. But there’s a...
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The PEN Pod: Searching for Broader Perspectives with Reza Aslan
In today’s The PEN Pod episode, we spoke with writer, commentator, and professor Reza Aslan, who in addition to having written four books on religion—including the New York Times-bestselling God: A...
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The PEN Pod: Lessons Learned in Uncertainty with Fatima Shaik
In today’s The PEN Pod episode, we spoke with journalist, writer, and teacher Fatima Shaik, who spent nearly a decade exploring the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in her native New Orleans in a series...
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The PEN Pod: Reimagining the Future with Jamie Metzl
Today on The PEN Pod, we spoke with technology and health futurist, geopolitical expert, novelist, and media commentator Jamie Metzl, who’s the author of Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the...
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The PEN Pod: It’s a Magnificent Time to Be a Writer with Parnaz Foroutan
Photo by Debbie Formoso In this episode of The PEN Pod, we talked with author and 2009 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow Parnaz Foroutan. Her new memoir, Home is a Stranger, follows her family’s...
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The PEN Pod: Tough Questions with Suzanne Nossel
The coronavirus pandemic is not only a health crisis, but a crisis of governance, the economy, and free speech and expression—from reporters being threatened, to doctors getting fired for speaking out....
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