By Lena Williams:: On the same day President Obama signed a bill that significantly improves access to public records under the Freedom of Information Act, it was reported that secret FBI rules allow agents to obtain journalists’ phone records without their knowledge and without a court order. So the president finally makes good on his […]
By Lena Williams, Guild-CWA:: The Secret Service had a fight on its hands after announcing in April that it planned to run background checks on the 15,000 journalists seeking credentials for the upcoming Republican and Democratic conventions. Officials never laid out the criteria for vetting, but said any journalist who failed a check would be […]
By Lena Williams, Guild-CWA :: Most college and university faculty members freely express ideas and opinions in the classroom and beyond, believing that they – like all Americans — have a First Amendment right to do so. They’re mistaken. A study released May 9 shows that academic freedom is an ideal, not a reality, in […]
By Lena Williams, Guild-CWA :: The photo shows a group of black female West Point cadets standing on the steps of a campus barrack looking sternly into the camera their hands raised in clenched fists. Were it not for those clenched fists, the photo would be unremarkable, one of hundreds taken during a tradition known […]
By Lena Williams, Guild-CWA :: A Canadian Court has ordered a Vice News reporter to give police his notes and other materials for three stories he wrote in 2014 on a suspected ISIS fighter. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police told the Ontario Superior Court that it needed “any notes and all records of communications” between […]