By William H. Freivogel >> Updated Dec. 22: A state judge ruled Dec. 20 that Missouri’s strict law redacting the names of witnesses and victims from court records violated both the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the Open Courts provision of the Missouri Constitution. Judge Aaron J. Martin, ruling out of Cole County
By Avery Heeringa >> The majority of journalists who were laid off or took buyouts since 2022 were early in their career or in their positions for three years or less, a new report found. The majority were women (68%) and journalists of color (42%), according to the results of a survey from the Institute
By Ruth Johnson >> The press failed to understand the voters who are returning Donald Trump to the White House, former Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron said. As in 2016, when Donald Trump was first elected president, “we didn’t understand the country well enough,” Baron said during a recent conversation with former New York
By William H. Freivogel >> If President-elect Donald Trump follows through on the threats and actions he directed at the press during the election campaign and his first administration, an already weakened press could suffer further harm over the next four years. A weaker press, in turn, weakens an important constitutional check on government, one
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
