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Congratulations to the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists! Click below to read more about the honorees. pulitzer.org/prize-winners-…

WHCA Statement on the Unprecedented Exclusion of Wires on International Trip.

Longtime Journalist Vikki Vargas Receives Honorary Doctorate, Urges Grads to ‘Do More Than What Is Asked’ news.fullerton.edu/2025/05/longti…

College media across the country face serious budget crises, as Daily Bruin reports. loom.ly/TPm_tqU “It’s a real barrier to being able to do this work and being able to include a diversity of student perspectives in our reporting staff because we can’t afford to pay

“Nadine Strossen and Greg Lukianoff are two of the fiercest defenders of free speech and the First Amendment alive today. The War On Words is a must read for anybody who cares about freedom of speech.” - Jonathan Haidt

I fully endorse this statement by the PPA As someone who walks the halls of the Pentagon daily, this policy is not only counter productive to both us and the branches who look to media to have their stories told… …it’s also a gross overreaction that didn’t need to happen.

Florida judge rules AI chatbots not protected by First Amendment courthousenews.com/florida-judge-…

1 Writing Class, 35 Years, 113 Deals, 95 Books For three decades at Columbia Journalism School, Sam Freedman has encouraged students to try long-form narratives. His brand of tough love has paid dividends. nytimes.com/2025/05/25/boo… via @NYTimes

Disappointed SCOTUS didn't take up L.M. v. Town of Middleborough today. The First Circuit's opinion substantially erodes Tinker's protection of student 1A rights & grants schools significant new authority to punish speech. Censorship won't help students, as @thefireorg argued:

Former Times reporter sues Villanueva, L.A County, alleging 1st Amendment violation - Los Angeles Times apple.news/AtprKk4e-QYSJy…

Congratulations to our #CSUFGrad2025 Titans who crossed the stage last week! 👉Check out the incredible opportunities our CSUF College of Communications Titans took advantage of during their time at Cal State Fullerton: youtube.com/watch?v=2IXpBU…

PBS filed suit Friday against President Donald Trump and other administration officials to block his order stripping federal funding from the 330-station public television system, three days after NPR did the same for its radio network. trib.al/wX49pyv

California opens inquiry into Paramount and Trump | Semafor semafor.com/article/05/30/…

FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez Wages a Lonely Fight for Press Freedom in Trumpland yahoo.com/news/fcc-commi… via @Yahoo News

Journalism “is the only thing that’s going to save the country,” Scott Pelley on CNN after Good Night, and Good Luck play. “You cannot have democracy without journalism. It can’t be done.” Pelley then advocated for what he and CBS News have failed at for decades: “We have to

The second #Trump administration has launched an unprecedented number of regulatory investigations against #news organizations in its first 100 days, often citing false or exaggerated claims about their coverage.🛑 Read more on the investigations’ impact in CPJ’s special

Trump's intention "appears to be to erode our understanding of what truth is, to erode trust in the media, and to position himself as the ultimate source of truth for his supporters," the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker's Stephanie Sugars tells @LiamJScott. freedom.press/issues/the-rep…

1A quote of the day 💭

JUST IN: LA Press Club sues LA County & LA Sheriff's Department LA County Sheriffs over repeated deployment of less-lethal munitions against journalists during immigration-related protests. Complaint includes some gory photos. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…