Content for Member Papers
NNA provides its members with content they can reprint in their papers or on their websites. This content includes First Amendment columns or editorials from the Freedom Forum, available weekly.
Freedom to report news needs freedom to gather it
May 23, 2013
Graduation prayer, fighting over a lost cause
May 16, 2013
Watergate Era: ‘A' Peak in Journalism
May 9, 2013
When students protest abortion, can schools draw the line?
May 2, 2013
Tragedies, technology reshaping free press, speech
April 25, 2013
Two national tragedies separated by six years and a day – the April 15 bombing at the Boston Marathon and the April 16, 2007, mass shooting at Virginia Tech University – also are notable in marking how technology is reshaping some uses of our freedoms of press and speech.
No flowers for gay wedding: Discrimination or religious freedom?
April 18, 2013
How not to protect religious liberty
April 11, 2013
Ground Zero Cross: A display is not a shrine
April 4, 2013
On March 28, a group of atheists in New York lost round one in their legal battle to keep the “Ground Zero Cross” out of the National September 11 Museum in lower Manhattan.
Can public business be 'private' conversation?
March 28, 2013
The First Amendment protects our free speech from government control, punishment or
interference - but when public officials speak freely through private e-mail
accounts or mobile phones, are they free to ignore freedom of information laws?
Why fifth graders have rights too
March 21, 2013
When people ask if kids in public schools have First Amendment rights, I’m tempted to answer “only if you think they’re human.”
