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  • 26 voices on why the free press matters

    2017 was a year when discussions of press freedom and the media's choices reached a new level of intensity. But despite the news coverage and the millions of words of commentary about these issues, just how much do most of us truly understand about why journalists do what they do and why the Constitution affords protection for free expression?
    In response to that question, CNN Opinion published the views of 26 leading thinkers and writers on the history of press freedom and the challenges the media faces today. Read more
  • BRIAN STELTER

    Why press freedom is your freedom

    Brian Stelter writes that anyone who shares on social media benefits from the free press guarantee in the US Constitution
  • FRANK SESNO

    Ask the tough questions

    While freedom of the press is a right spelled out in the Constitution and upheld by the courts, it is also every American citizen's responsibility to foster and protect, says Frank Sesno
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    ADAM SCHIFF

    Rep Schiff: One thing Mike Pence and I agreed on

    The United States must defend journalists, who are under the greatest threat when governments or violent nonstate actors believe they can target them with impunity, US Rep. Adam Schiff says
  • CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR

    No free press, no democracy

    Christiane Amanpour says journalists put their lives on the line to find out and report the truth, and there's no excuse for demonizing them with accusations of "fake news"
  • JONATHAN PETERS

    The newspaper ad that changed everything

    In March 1960, the New York Times published a paid ad from a group supporting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., setting off a chain of events that would change the role of the press in America, writes Jonathan Peters
  • SONJA WES