The Free Speech Files
In the Free Speech Files, GJR publisher and host William Freivogel takes listeners on a deep dive into the most pressing challenges and debates facing the First Amendment today. Over a limited-run series, we examine how free speech, press freedom, assembly and petition rights are tested across the United States — from social media moderation to book bans, from journalistic whistleblowers to campus speech controversies. Each episode features interviews with legal scholars, frontline reporters and thinkers defending or critiquing the boundaries of expression. Listen to the whole series here or a sample below.
Ferguson Special Report
Reformers, activists, academics and journalists tell their stories about Ferguson, civil rights, police reform and the role of social media. The stories in this special report trace the enormous power social media exerted in telling the Ferguson story to the world and creating a new civil rights movement. It tells the story of long-time reformers whose efforts got new attention and energy from the reform impulses that emerged from Ferguson. William H. Freivogel, publisher for GJR, conducted the interviews and Kayli Plotner, online editor of the project, condensed the interviews into digestible segments. Listen to the whole series here or a sample below.