freedom of the press

A group of high school students are suspended from school for publishing an underground newspaper that the principal finds objectionable.

The top twenty-five censored stories reported in the media in 2005 and 2006 as identified by Project Censored, including articles on Halliburton's connections to nuclear technology in Iran, high-tech genocide in Congo, and the increase of dead zones in the world's oceans; and reports on what happened to previous censored stories, bias in the Associated Press, and other related topics.

A collection of essays in which almost two dozen award-winning print and television journalists examine the dangerous state of journalism in the United States at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

Traces the evolution of free speech in America since the founding of the country through a collection of over one hundred primary documents, including court cases, magazine articles, newspaper reports, and speeches.

Examines two hundred significant news events which occurred between 1976 and 1995, and argues that the media either failed to cover the stories or engaged in self-censorship, leaving the American public uninformed.

Explains what freedom of the press is, its history in colonial times, its meaning in the Constitution, and current controversial issues challenging the boundaries of this freedom.

Examines the controversy, provides a chronology of events, and links the events to key statements by well-known persons in the chronology.

Profiles the life of eighteenth-century German immigrant and newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger, focusing on his 1735 trial for allegedly printing seditious libel against New York's governor William Cosby and the British government.