DARE: Google Workers Can Listen to What People Say to its AI Home Devices
Want to receive this digest in your inbox? To subscribe, simply click here and choose DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression from the list. Google admits that its contractors can listen to...
View ArticleHouse Passes World Press Freedom Day Resolution
The House of Representatives unanimously approved a resolution recognizing growing threats to press freedom around the world in conjunction with World Press Freedom Day. House Resolution 345 is a...
View ArticlePEN America Calls for Acquittals Ahead of Verdict Expected in Trial of...
(New York) — Prior to the expected verdict in Turkey on Wednesday, July 17 in the trial of Erol Önderoğlu, Şebnem Korur Fincancı, and Ahmet Nesin, in which they are accused of creating terrorist...
View ArticleJudge Orders U.S. Government to Turn Over Khashoggi Documents
(New York, NY)–A federal district court judge in New York City this week ordered the State and Defense Departments to produce thousands of pages of documents relating to the killing of exiled Saudi...
View ArticleMedia Blackout in Jammu and Kashmir Threatens Free Expression
(New York, NY)—PEN America is alarmed by reports of a virtual media blackout across Jammu and Kashmir following the Indian government’s decision to revoke the region’s special status and downgrade it...
View ArticleFederal Court Rules to Reinstate PEN America Member Brian Karem’s White House...
(New York, NY) – A DC District Court judge today ruled against the White House and ordered the Trump administration to reinstate the hard press pass for reporter and PEN American Member Brian Karem....
View ArticlePEN America to Participate in First-Ever LA Press Freedom Week
(Los Angeles, CA) — At a time when assaults on journalists and threats to press freedom are on the rise in the United States, PEN America will participate in the first-ever LA Press Freedom Week,...
View ArticleCalifornia Gig Worker Bill May Have Unintended Consequences for Press Freedom
(New York, NY) – As California’s legislature advances a bill meant to reclassify contract workers as employees, PEN America today cautioned that the bill could have unintended consequences for...
View ArticleDARE: Google Algorithm Will Highlight ‘Original Reporting’
Want to receive this digest in your inbox? To subscribe, simply click here and choose DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression from the list. Press are denied access to new immigration “tent courts”...
View ArticlePEN America Calls White House Decision to Ignore Times Journalist’s Plight...
(New York, NY) – The New York Times’ publisher A.G. Sulzberger revealed today that the U.S. government learned of the imminent arrest of Times reporter Declan Walsh in Egypt and did nothing to protect...
View ArticleRestrictions on Journalists During Impeachment Would Jeopardize Press Freedom
**UPDATE: PEN America has joined 57 other organizations in this open letter to Senate leadership opposing these egregious new rules.** (Washington, DC) – The restrictions proposed by the Senate...
View ArticleLandmark First Amendment Lawsuit Against President Trump Will Proceed
(New York, NY) — Today a federal court ruled against President Trump in a lawsuit that claims he has used government power to retaliate against media coverage and reporters he dislikes in violation of...
View ArticleIran Bans Print Media in Response to COVID-19
(New York, NY) – In response to an Iranian coronavirus task force’s wholesale ban on print media, Summer Lopez, PEN America’s senior director of free expression programs, issued the following...
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The PEN Pod: Tough Questions with Suzanne Nossel
Every Friday, we’ll be discussing tricky questions about free speech and expression as they pertain to the ongoing pandemic with our CEO Suzanne Nossel, author of the forthcoming Dare to Speak:...
View ArticleAmid Pandemic, PEN America Urges State Officials to Support Local Journalism
(New York, NY) – PEN America today led a coalition of local news and press freedom organizations to send letters to governors in all 50 states, as well as the mayor of Washington D.C., urging...
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From Informed Responsibility To Dangerous Denial: COVID Responses in Eurasia
Photo by the Associated Press There have been striking differences in how certain countries in Eurasia have responded to COVID-19 with regard to freedom of expression, access to information, and...
View ArticlePEN America Demands New York City, Minneapolis Police Protect Press Freedom
(New York, NY) — PEN America has joined over a hundred news outlets and media rights organizations calling on the New York City and Minneapolis police departments to end the arrest and harassment of...
View ArticlePEN America: Governors Must Protect Journalists Covering Protests
(Washington, D.C.) — PEN America and the Committee to Protect Journalists this week led a coalition of 56 press freedom organizations and experts in sending letters to every governor across the U.S....
View ArticleConviction of Philippines Journalists “Disgraceful Travesty of Justice”
(New York, NY) – One of the Philippines most prominent journalists Maria Ressa and reporter Reynaldo Santos, Jr. were convicted Monday of cyber-libel, charges brought by a businessman in response to an...
View ArticleCuba: Immediately Release Poet and Journalist Roberto de Jesús Quiñones Haces
PEN International calls for the immediate and unconditional release of poet, lawyer and independent journalist Roberto de Jesús Quiñones Haces. In April 2019, he was detained while he was covering a...
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