Each of these articles is from the blog PR Office Censorship by Kathryn Foxhall. She is, perhaps, the foremost authority on the issue of censorship via public information officers. Anyone looking to understand this situation will find these articles helpful in explaining why it is considered a threat to free speech and freedom of information — the founding principles of our democracy, and the foundations of the public’s right to know and journalism’s mission to provide the public with information it needs to make informed decisions in everyday and civic life.
- PR Office Censorship: CDC Should End Censorship on Journalists, Says D.C. Chapter of SPJ
- PR Office Censorship: Four Groups Call for Ending Bans on Federal Staff Talking to Reporters Without Oversight
- PR Office Censorship: SPJ DC Chapter Says Press Restrictions Exacerbated Current Problems
- PR Office Censorship: SPJ Chapter to Academies’ Presidents: Scientists, Others Should Be Allowed to Speak to Reporters
- PR Office Censorship: SPJ: Agencies’ Control on Speech May Have Led to Higher COVID-19 Death Toll
- PR Office Censorship: Stop the Silencing of Police Officers
- PR Office Censorship: Webinar on Constraints on Staff Speech: Slam Dunk Not Legal, Says First Amendment Attorney
- PR Office Censorship: Concerns about CDC’s Quiet: Remember All the Censorship While We Got Ourselves into This Mess
- PR Office Censorship: Journalism Group Calls on Administration To End Speech Restrictions, Old and New
- PR Office Censorship: 27 Groups Call on Congress to End the Censorship on Federal Employees
- PR Office Censorship: Maybe A Breakthrough: Brechner Center Says PIO Constraints Have Never Survived Constitutional Challenge