I was pleased to contribute a chapter to this project from the Knight First Amendment Institute:

“The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times,” piloted by the Institute’s 2023-2024 Senior Visiting Research Scholars RonNell Andersen Jones and Sonja R. West, brings together scholars from a number of interrelated fields, to answer critically important questions about how to identify performers of the press function for purposes of legal and constitutional protection. How, if at all, can we shape doctrine and legal policies that grant rights to those acting as proxies for the public without privileging the powerful over the weak? How can we distinguish performers of the press function from performers of other communicative functions? And what protections might be constitutional necessities for fulfilling the wider purpose of the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of the press?

The project examines these questions through a series of public conversations, blog posts, and essays and featured in a major symposium—entitled “The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times,” held May 3, 2024, and an edited volume from Cambridge University Press (forthcoming in 2025).

My chapter, “From Bloggers in Pajamas to the Gateway Pundit,” is posted here and will eventually appear in the Cambridge edited volume.