Sunshine Week Participation Around New England
Last week was Sunshine Week and we are pleased that so many New England publications ran an editorial on the importance of open government...
New England First Amendment Award Now Accepting Entries
NENPA members, please enter your work that illuminates or upholds our five freedoms for the New England First Amendment Award. The New England First...
First Amendment Watch Releases a Citizen’s Guide to Recording Police
New York University First Amendment Watch | June 10, 2020
In response to the nationwide demonstrations against police brutality,...
Making the Web, Social Media ‘Better’ Places — with Caution
We'd all like a "better" internet in terms of privacy, politeness, taste and safety. And who would oppose eliminating false or misleading information from...
NEFAC Provides Expert Speakers for University of Massachusetts Journalism Workshops
The New England First Amendment Coalition is providing workshop instructors to the University of Massachusetts Amherst as part of the group’s First Amendment and the Free Press program.
NEFAC launched the...
Student Journalism: More Needed Than Ever
In more communities today than ever, student publications are doing double-duty — reporting news of schools and surrounding communities — and doing both well.
As...
Perspective: What to know about ‘unpublishing’ policies
Who wouldn’t want to get a “fresh start?”
Our life record has always been on display in some fashion...
Defending all of us by defending a free press
Gene Policinski is president and chief operating officer of the Freedom Forum Institute. He can be reached atgpolicinski@freedomforum.org, or follow...
NEFAC, MNPA and NENPA ask for transparency in Mass. Governor-Elect Maura Healey’s office
The New England First Amendment Coalition, Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association, and the New England Newspaper & Press Association called on Mass. Governor-Elect Maura Healey in a Dec. 19...
COVID-19: Getting good information as virus crisis unfolds
Gene Policinski is president and chief operating officer of the Freedom Forum Institute. He can be reached at gpolicinski@freedomforum.org, or follow...