Roy S. Gutterman (@rsgutter), Director, Tully Center for Free Speech. Located in @NewhouseSU #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #FreePress

Syracuse University
Joined January 2010
Tully Center’s Roy Gutterman joined @SyracuseULib to talk academic freedom during #BannedBooksWeek. He spoke about Justice Brennan’s opinion in Keyishian v. Board of Regents, a landmark academic freedom case, which held “the classroom is peculiarly the ‘marketplace of ideas.’”
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Syracuse University’s Banned Book Week will provide opportunities for discourse about intellectual freedom, censorship and access to information. Exhibits and panels across SU will focus on different banned topics from Monday until Oct. 9. dailyorange.com/2026/10/sus-…
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As featured on @syracusedotcom: on Oct. 7, the Syracuse Hanley courthouse will host a reenactment of the landmark 1735 Zenger trial, which helped shape freedom of the press in America. A panel discussion with Tully Director Roy Gutterman to follow. Read⬇️ syracuse.com/news/2026/10/sy…
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📢 Wednesday, October 7 at 4:30pm: a live reenactment of the 1735 Crown v. John Peter Zenger trial, followed by a panel on press freedom featuring Tully Center Director Roy Gutterman. Free and open to all at the Hanley Federal Building, Syracuse. See more info⬇️ #FreePress
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"Ten years ago, the average person didn't need to worry about this kind of aggressive government activity," Tully Center Director Roy Gutterman told @washingtonpost. He noted individual freedom is now eroding "for specious political purposes." Read more: washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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"It’s one thing to deny access. It’s another thing to deny access because you don’t like the outlet," Tully Center Director Roy Gutterman told USA TODAY, on the recent White House ban of certain news outlets. Read more: usatoday.com/story/news/nati…
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Tully Center for Free Speech retweeted
President Donald Trump’s order to ban news outlets CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House news coverage violates First Amendment rights and is an alarming escalation of how far this administration will go to control the narrative and silence critical, fact-based, news coverage. Read more ⤵️ cpj.org/2026/09/cpj-presiden…
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A group of scientists filed a class-action lawsuit against the US National Institutes of Health, alleging the agency is unconstitutionally screening research ​grants to suppress viewpoints the Trump administration disfavors on topics like diversity, ‌gender identity and climate change reut.rs/4rAd2WB
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A federal judge refused Friday to block the Pentagon from firing three Stars and Stripes staff members who claim they were illegally disciplined for speaking out about the military news outlet’s need to maintain its editorial independence.firstamendmentwatch.org/judg…
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The University of Alabama shut down two student magazines and now a federal court will decide whether student journalism at public universities is “government speech.” FIRE joined an @SPLC-led coalition urging the court to protect student editorial control. 🧵
The University of Alabama’s suspension of student-run magazines Alice and Nineteen Fifty-Six is a blow to student press freedom. These publications have the First Amendment right to be free of viewpoint-based discrimination, yet UA is explicitly citing their viewpoints to justify killing their publications. No federal anti-discrimination law gives the university the power to silence student media it dislikes. Calling the magazines’ content an “unlawful proxy” is baseless. This is an attack on the student press, plain and simple. FIRE demands that UA immediately reinstate both publications.
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ICYMI: Roy Gutterman, First Amendment scholar and @TullyCenter director, discusses Jimmy Kimmel, the FCC investigation action and the agency’s deviation from normal protocol. @CBC @NewhouseSU @SUCollegeofLaw cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7…
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Nexstar’s $6.2B Tegna deal is reshaping local media, consolidating stations like WTNH and Fox 61. Our own Professor Roy Gutterman warns it raises concerns about media concentration and the future of local journalism. Read more about it below ⬇️ ctinsider.com/business/artic…
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Thank you to everyone who came out for the 2025 Tully Free Speech Award event honoring Marion County Record editor and publisher Eric Meyer. He showed us the importance of combatting the threats to free speech and to journalists everywhere. #FreeSpeech #PressFreedom
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Tully Center Director Professor Roy Gutterman, highlights the importance of press protection and how warrants targeting journalists risk exposing sources and undermining news gathering. ‼️Join us Thursday 2/26 to hear more!! syracuse.com/opinion/2026/02… #FreeSpeech #PressFreedom
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‼️Mark your calendars‼️ on February 26th in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium the Tully Center for Free Speech is presenting the 2025 Free Speech Award to Eric Meyer, editor and publisher of the Marion County Record. Read about it below ⬇️ nytimes.com/2025/11/11/us/ma…
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‼️The unprecedented arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for covering a protest pose a clear threat to press freedom. This harms the public’s right to know. The First Amendment protects reporters…not intimidation. #FreePress theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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