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Midwest

Life after the newsroom: What’s next?

  • By Dennis Anderson
  • February 27, 2026

For nearly four decades as a community newspaper editor, I’d often coach reporters to write and report from the.

First Amendment, Midwest, Special Projects

‘Sorry, AP Chem’: How student media at one Missouri high school covered a walkout to protest ICE

  • By Kiley Huang and Josie Mottl
  • February 13, 2026

Kirkwood High School students walked out of class at 10:40 a.m., Jan. 30, to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement,.

First Amendment, Special Projects

Commentary: Stars and Stripes’ legacy of editorial independence shows value of a free press

  • By Brian Brooks
  • February 6, 2026

My grandfather read Stars and Stripes while leading a platoon of engineers in World War I. He was wounded.

First Amendment, Special Projects

News analysis: Trump’s handling of Minnesota investigations defies time-tested procedures and looks like a ‘cover-up in plain sight’  

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • January 30, 2026

At the time that ICE agents killed Alex Pretti in a hail of 10 bullets last Saturday, Pretti was.

First Amendment, Media News, Midwest

Hazelwood censorship case looms over student journalists

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • December 27, 2025

Thirty-seven years ago, on Jan. 13, 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court announced a devastating blow to student speech and.

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