By William H. Freivogel Missouri and the right-wing Gateway Pundit lost their U.S. Supreme Court claims that the Biden administration had coerced social media companies to suppress their free speech by removing false and dangerous internet posts about COVID-19, vaccinations and election denial. The vote was 6-3 with three of the more moderate conservatives joining
By Kallie Cox The way journalists report on criminal justice and law enforcement has evolved over the past 10 years. In 2014 when Michael Brown was killed by police in Ferguson, we saw the beginning of this reform, and in 2020 following the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, we saw even greater
By Paul Wagman Attorneys for the two Georgia poll workers who have sued the Gateway Pundit for defamation are asking authorities in Florida to throw out the Pundit’s recent bankruptcy filing there or to allow their case in St. Louis to proceed regardless. In a May 31 motion filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in
By Ryan Krull A new state law intended to protect the privacy of witnesses and victims of crimes is instead hampering defense lawyers and journalists, a lawsuit filed last week in Cole County Circuit Court in Missouri argued. That law, which took effect in August, contains a provision requiring that the names of crime victims
By Olivia Cohen In an increasingly rare move for a print publication, especially with the abrupt closure of The Riverfront Times, Chicago’s alt-weekly is expanding its print operations. The Reader will print weekly editions of the paper again starting this week after reducing its paper distribution to a biweekly in June 2020 because of the
