Gene Policinski is a senior fellow for the Freedom Forum, one of the nation’s foremost advocates of First Amendment freedoms. His career as a reporter began in Greenfield Indiana, at the Greenfield Independent. Policinski has an expertise in First Amendment issues, which he gained over the course of his 50-year career working for news companies such as Gannett News Service, the USA Today network and the Newseum Institute.

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Freedom of the press

Freedom of the press is a Constitutional guarantee contained in the First Amendment, which in turn is part of the Bill of Rights. This freedom protects the right to gather information and report it to others. While at the time of ratification in 1791, the free press clause addressed newspapers, it now applies to all […]